According to a 2010 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average American eight- to eighteen-year-old racks up over seven and a half hours of recreational media use per day, not including texting. That’s nearly fifty-three hours per week—more time than they spend going to school. Younger kids are not that far behind. A 2009 survey by Nielsen showed that American children age two to five years spend over four and a half hours per day in front of a TV screen, not counting time spent playing video games. And this was at a time when smartphones were still a novelty and the iPad had yet to be
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