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Children aged between three and seven should be limited to half-an-hour to an hour of screen time each day, he said. Those aged seven to 12 should spend just one hour in front of screens. Children aged 12 to 15 should have a maximum of 1.5 hours in front of screens and those aged 16 and over should spend just two hours, he recommends. ''Reducing total daily screen time for children, and delaying the age at which they start, could provide significant advantages for their health and wellbeing,'' he writes.
TV Time Photo via Shutterstock. Children should be limited to less than two hours of entertainment-based screen time per day, and shouldn't have TVs or Internet access in their bedrooms, according to new guidelines from pediatricians.he part about watching things with kids is important, because otherwise parents have no idea what their kids are seeing, he said. Limiting all entertainment screen time to less than two hours per day may be difficult given modern life, but these are best practices, and you can be flexible, Amitay told LiveScience.