A study conducted by the University of Calgary in Canada into screentime of children globally found that around 75.3 percent of children aged under two and 64.4 percent of children aged two to five in these studies exceed guidelines for screentime in pre-pandemic periods. The current screentime guidelines globally are generally recommended to be no screentime at all for children less than two and one hour per day for children aged two to five. The researchers, led by Brae Anne McArthur, analysed and reviewed studies from around the world to see the proportion of children meeting screentime guidelines, including studies from the U.S., Canada, Australia, UK,  EU members Finland, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, and Greece, as well as Singapore and China. With screentime increasing during the pandemic, the authors only utilised data from 1999 months prior to the pandemic for a more accurate perspective of children’s screentime in normal circumstances. The …