Maryland Screen Safety legislation
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by Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, PhD.,
author of Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hijacking Our Kids
by Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, PhD.,
author of Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hijacking Our Kids
The New York Post, Sunday, December 18, 2016
"But not all parents are drinking the screens-are-wonderful Kool-Aid — some are fighting back.
Cindy Eckard, a Maryland mother of two, is launching a grass-roots campaign to create legislation to limit screen time in schools and is testifying in front of a state Senate subcommittee hearing this month.
“I was shocked to learn that the Maryland State Department of Education had no medically sound health guidelines in place before they put so many of our children in front of a computer every day . . . The schools keep encouraging more screen time in the classroom without any regard for our children’s well-being,” Eckard told me. “Our children are owed a safe classroom environment, and right now they’re not getting one.” "