Standard-Journal – Ashleigh Wetzel, PT, DPT
“One of the biggest challenges for parents is to combat the amount of screen time their children get. Screen time includes watching television and playing on the computer, iPad, or other electronic devices. According to the latest statistics from the National Institutes of Health, most American children today spend three hours a day watching television. When you add together the other types of screen time it increases to five to seven hours a day. This is time when they could be participating in more physical activities…Here are some tips for families to be more physically active together.”(more)