‘Still want more’: Teens weigh in on screen time impact at Quebec commission

A peculiar Quebec committee looking into the interaction screen time is having connected children and teenagers heard from Montreal students.

After consulting with wellness experts, parents and kids, the committee hopes to supply educators with amended tools to assistance young radical navigate societal media. Officials are besides visiting schools and talking to students to perceive their testimonies.

“They person problems sleeping. They person imaginativeness problems with the bluish light. They each cognize that. Anxiety problems erstwhile they don’t person their phones with them,” Liberal MNA Enrico Ciccone said.

All the clip spent connected integer devices is coming nether scrutiny by the commission. Issues relating to video games, addictive apps and online contented that could beryllium harmful oregon threatening are nether review.

Many students admitted Thursday that immoderate of the worldly they look astatine is addictive and a discarded of time.

“The games, I conscionable get bored with them but I inactive privation more. I can’t enactment distant from them,” said Tyler McGrath, a pupil astatine John Rennie High School.

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— with files from Global’s Kalina Laframboise