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No screen time for children in daycare and kindergarten

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The minister of education, Mattias Tesfaye, will propose a law to ban the use of phones/ipads/tvs in daycare institutions and kindergartens. Why? A child should not be exposed to screens before the age of six. 

  • Research done by VIVE shows that 52% of three-year-olds spend at least one hour a day in front of a screen. On the other hand, a report made by Aarhus University (2020) says that, on average, children are exposed to a maximum of 5 minutes of screen time in daycare and kindergarten. 
  • The parents association FOLA considers the law proposal irrelevant and recommends the minister come up with solutions that would increase the quality of education. The pedagogues union, BUPL, also doesn’t find the law relevant. 
  • Nye Borgerlige (far-right); Liberal Alliance (libertarian); Konservative (conservative) are against the idea of a “screen ban”. SF (socialist) are open to the idea. 
Narcis George Matache
Narcis George Matachehttp://www.narcis.dk
Executive Editor and Founder of "Last Week in Denmark".

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