During a visit to Iowa, U-S Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Junior issued a U.S. Surgeon General’s Warning that excessive screen use has become one of the most urgent public health challenges facing children today. “Children are spending more time on screens than sleeping, exercising, reading, interacting face to face with family and friends,” Kennedy said. Kennedy says it’s affecting the health, development, and daily lives America kids in ways that can no longer be ignored. Kennedy spoke during a Wednesday afternoon stop at an elementary school in Gilbert. The report he released indicates the average American teenager spends eight-and-half hours a day looking at the screen of a smart phone or computer. Kennedy says even more troubling is that screen time for six year olds averages around two-and-a-half hours a day.
