{"id":86985,"date":"2026-03-27T08:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86985"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:54:06","slug":"screen-time-for-under-fives-should-be-limited-to-one-hour-a-day-parents-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/screen-time-for-under-fives-should-be-limited-to-one-hour-a-day-parents-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen time for under-fives should be limited to one hour a day, parents told"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1800\/cpsprodpb\/b283\/live\/3c2e09b0-293d-11f1-934f-036468834728.jpg\" alt=\"Romi, who has blond curly hair and is wearning a white t-shirt, is passing a book to his mum, Alexis who has short brown hair and is wearning a grey hoodie. She is passing a digital device with a colourful cover back to him and both are smiling. \" width=\"578\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Children under the age of five should be limited to one hour of screen time a day, while under-twos should not be watching screens alone, new government guidance says. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1d936n7445o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>&nbsp; Children under the age of five should be limited to one hour of screen time a day, while under-twos should not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/screentime-toddler.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86985","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=86985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86986,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86985\/revisions\/86986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}