Screen the junk online

Experts say it is insufficient for parents to limit screen time for children when online content can be harmful too

Mr David Seragih and his wife Rebekah have guided their son, Moshe Hans Seragih, now nine, on what is good and bad media use since he was four. Mr Sadayan Ahmed Maideen Jabbar and his wife, Madam Wahidah Fervin Abdul Azeez, review the online content
Mr Sadayan Ahmed Maideen Jabbar and his wife, Madam Wahidah Fervin Abdul Azeez, review the online content their children are exposed to. With them are their children - (foreground, from left) sons Sadayan Ehsan Ahmed, Sadayan Haaron Ahmed and Sadayan Aqeel Ahmed, and daughter Sadayan Mariam Zahra. PHOTO: DIOS VINCOY JR FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES
Mr David Seragih and his wife Rebekah have guided their son, Moshe Hans Seragih, now nine, on what is good and bad media use since he was four. Mr Sadayan Ahmed Maideen Jabbar and his wife, Madam Wahidah Fervin Abdul Azeez, review the online content
Mr David Seragih and his wife Rebekah have guided their son, Moshe Hans Seragih, now nine, on what is good and bad media use since he was four. PHOTO: DIOS VINCOY JR FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES
Venessa Lee
Senior Correspondent
Updated
Oct 21, 2018, 05:00 AM
Published
Oct 21, 2018, 05:00 AM
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Have parents been focusing too much on screen-time limits for their children? Perhaps they should pay more attention to what exactly their offspring are watching online.

Some of the world's top children's television programme-makers warned recently that kids are being inundated by the digital equivalent of "pizza and sweets".

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on October 21, 2018, with the headline Screen the junk online. Subscribe

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