The following report is by AFP:
Toddlers should not be allowed to watch screens at all, Sweden told parents on Monday.
Children under the age of two should be kept away from digital media and television completely, the country’s Public Health Agency said.
Kids between the ages of two and five should be limited to a maximum of one hour of screen time a day, it said in new recommendations, while those aged six to 12 should spend no more than an hour or two a day in front of a screen.
Teenagers aged 13 to 18 should be limited to two to three hours per day, the agency said.
“For too long, smartphones and other screens have been allowed to enter every aspect of our children’s lives,” Public Health Minister Jakob Forssmed told reporters.
The minister said that Swedish teens aged 13 to 16 spend six and a half hours a day on average in front of their screens, outside of school hours.
Forssmed said that didn’t leave “a lot of time for communal activities, physical activity or adequate sleep”, and lamented a Swedish “sleep crisis” noting that more than half of 15-year-olds did not get enough sleep.
The health agency also recommended that kids not use screens before going to bed and that phones and tablets be kept out of bedroom at night.
It cited research showing that excessive screen use can lead to poor sleep, depression and body dissatisfaction.
Sweden’s government has previously said it is looking at a ban on smartphones in primary schools.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Psalm 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
In 2021, I showed a patent that explicitly shows that a television is designed to mind-control the viewer, and by extension we can surmise that the same can easily be said for smartphones, just anecdotally observing the zombie-like effects the phones have on the masses. Because of this, people can be propagandized, deceived and manipulated very easily, on top of all the social cues, mannerisms, subliminals, homiletics, and music that is used to beguile the viewer; and then, especially in the U.S., when you pair that with a drugged-up and poisoned population from the food and water they consume, it is not hard to see how and why Americans will believe literally anything and are easily manipulated on a whim.
There are examples, unsurprisingly, where schools are prohibiting phones and the children’s grades and attentiveness is way higher versus others (can I see your shocked face?).
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Sadly, a huge lot of the lost masses, including saved brethren, cling to these “moving pictures”-producing devices such as TVs; and cellphones like strange gods in their hands:
Genesis 35:4
4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Numbers 33:52
52 then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: