Screen Time Guidelines (AAP)
The American Academy of Pediatrics offers guidance to help families think about children's screen use by age, focusing on balance with sleep, activity, and family time rather than a single fixed limit. Parents can use it as a starting point for their own plan; the official guidance is linked below.
The guidance is framed as a family plan rather than as a single number, and that framing is the substantive part: an hour count carries no information about what the hour contains or what it displaces.
No figure is reproduced on this page. The age bands, and any duration attached to them, are published by the academy cited here.
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