According to the Kaiser Family FoundationExternal, children between the ages of 8-18 spend an average of 7.5 hours in front of a digital screen each day.
Over the course of a year, that’s a total of 114 days watching a screen for entertainment.
On Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Jody Baumstein, a licensed therapist for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Strong4Life team, told program host Rose Scott that humans are hardwired for connection and explained the difference between online connections versus social connections.
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