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title: "Kids today: 53 hours each week in front of a screen!"
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updated: 2019-09-15T16:21:38+00:00
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# Kids today: 53 hours each week in front of a screen!

Kids today spend some 7.5 hours a day engaged with some type of media; with with multitasking, that’s 11 hours of screen time per day, or almost  53 hours a week, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation!

That’s more than a full time job, and more time than their parents spend at work.

Here’s a video clip where Jim was the opening keynote speaker for the 2010 US Navy, Air Force & Marine Child Youth Program Conference in Dallas, Texas, putting these numbers into perspective and speaking to the new realities in providing support services today.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wkJIlPys4r8