Answer to weekly question. Ken Ross

I disagree with parents banning cellphones, texting, tweeting, and laptops from their bedrooms and limiting their fun time to two hours a day. I believe banning the kids screen time will make surreptitious kids; when the parents are out, the kids will sneak around the house and try to find their laptop or cellphones and use it. Also a lot of kids use their screen time to interact with friends and others. Kids use Facebook or email to connect with team members to figure out schedules for sports, but if you used up your limit time of screen time of two hours for the day, you won’t be able to find the schedules nor you won’t be able to talk to them about it. Also having a social life could be tricky to get with only two hours of the day to make plans or if we had an emergency we wouldn't be able to call 911 or our parents because out limit of two hours a day is gone. Although parents may think it could be a good idea to have their child two hours a day for their screen time, if parents want you to be safe and have friends and a social life, they shouldn't think about limiting because a phone can help a lot.