I think that it would be awesome if kids were limited to 3hours a week.

This is the worst idea!

Won’t happen here but I wish kids would get back to basics and engage in more outdoor and imaginative play rather than getting lost in an online world.

I feel like this wouldn’t be the worst idea, with the way some children game these days.

Wholly, haha, I can just imagine if I tried to do this to my step son.

Three hours a week, I’m surprised they can find that time amongst all the other extra curricular activities.

This is pretty strict. I wonder how they can enforce this…I don’t know enough about online gaming to know how it would be possible to limit the time people are online.

That’s very strict and limited but all the chinese children will be the same so they will accept it.

Don’t know that I’d like this as a law, but as a strong guideline, it’d help a lot of parents.

I get the idea of it but it should be up to us as parents as to what we allow our kids to do. What will they want to control next?

Too many people can be seen walking around staring at their phones and not watching where they’re going, I think 3 hours a week is a bit drastic though.

We exercise moderation and balance in all things which includes technology and screen time.

This is a really good idea. As a kid I would have hated it but as a parent I love it

I’m glad this isn’t about individual children so much as it is regulating the industry. It might be a bit too far, and it seems difficult to enforce.

This is the future though!
Kids get paid bank playing video games while others watch.
But I guess their country has always been super strict on their kids.

A limit on screen time is a good idea, but I doubt that democratic countries would be able to enforce it like a Communist country can.

Yes, a limit would be good, but 3 hours a week is a little harsh …..

I think it’s a great idea. Children and people spend too much time on Social Media and playing games. Children’s minds are so formative and to allow them to spend endless time on media gadgets is destructive to their creativity and imagination. Social media and gaming isolate people from each other. I remember when it was beneficial at times to speak and interact with your neighbours, and find out who they were and be on hand if necessary to help. People are so cut off these days and I see most people walking around with their heads in their phones. I had a woman walk in front of my vehicle with her head in her phone. If I wasn’t alert I would have hit her. She was not even perturbed that she almost got hit. I told her you can die from that. She just kept on walking. In my town there was a young man who was killed when he was on his mobile and he stepped out from two cars and a courier vehicle hit him and he was killed instantly, because he wasn’t using road safety and watching where he was going, instead of burying his head in his phone. I felt for the courier and the trauma she suffered from the accident as it wasn’t her fault. I think mobiles phones are destructive if they are not used for their correct purpose. I’m glad they weren’t created when I was raising my children. It never hurt us not to have mobile contact. If you couldn’t get someone on their home phone you left a message and they would call you back when they got home. We should be spending more time building relationships with other’s and family members, which is a good idea I think and I believe. Everyone seems to be too busy for that these days, and their time is eaten up with media. It is a sad reflection of our society, as people have lost the true art of conversation and communication.

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 03 Sep 2021 , 4:34 am

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  Yeah it is a sad development. Tricky thing now with Covid that everything goes via our devices ! We have Zoom and Teams catch ups, do our groveries online, study online, submit our work online, banking online, orders and business online and address many issues online….
  How are we even going to turn that back ?

A limit of 3 hours of gaming a week is a great idea. Children these days spend so much time on their screens for all sorts of things so just limiting game time would have huge benefits to their well being.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 07 Sep 2021 , 7:26 am

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  I agree – less time on screens and more time focused on overall wellbeing and exercise.

This is a great idea