{"id":80446,"date":"2025-10-10T21:13:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80446"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:13:53","slug":"screen-time-linked-to-poorer-reading-and-writing-among-primary-school-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/screen-time-linked-to-poorer-reading-and-writing-among-primary-school-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen time linked to poorer reading and writing among primary school children"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1OdSdU.img?w=534&h=356&m=6\" alt=\"Young Child watching a show on a flat screen television in the living room\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Primary school children who spend a lot of time on screens perform worse in reading and maths tests, a new study suggests.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/screen-time-linked-to-poorer-reading-and-writing-among-primary-school-children\/ar-AA1OdQbL?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=9c52968d714144fc806db1888e5c510a&ei=36\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Primary school children who spend a lot of time on screens perform worse in reading and maths tests, a new study suggests.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/child-watching-tv.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80447,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80446\/revisions\/80447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}