{"id":795492,"date":"2026-10-08T03:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795492\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T03:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:16:19","slug":"teachers-reveal-kids-shocking-screen-time-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795492\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Reveal Kids&#8217; Shocking Screen Time Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      6.<\/p>\n<p>      &#8220;Yesterday we had a water day at my school in the afternoon. They had these huge inflatables, but they were all wet rides like a bouncy house with water, a giant water slide, etc. They also had lots of water-related games. If I was a kid, I would have played without stopping. Several of our students were simply not able to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They whined about being bored and wanted to go inside, even begging me to leave my station and take them inside. &#8216;Ms. Ride, this is boring. Can you take us inside to your room?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finally they found a platform on the field and sat there on their phones for most of the three hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not being able to engage in or enjoy non-screen activities screams &#8216;I have unlimited screen time.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskTeachers\/comments\/1cxo1ci\/comment\/l5454ny\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">u\/we_gon_ride<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6. &#8220;Yesterday we had a water day at my school in the afternoon. They had these huge inflatables,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[401,402,403,59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bestofinternet-reddit","tag-evergreen","tag-flipped","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}