Larry Williams Drive

I don't know if you remember - but not long ago on the show we had a debate about screen time and how bad it is for kids.The question we were asking is - are we all just having a moral panic over screens, or are they as bad as the experts say they are?And I think we’ve just got more evidence that the latter is true - that screens are a particularly pernicious problem of our age for the little ones.Teachers are saying there are kids turning up at 5, sometimes 6, at school - and they just can't put sentences together. One teacher said a 6-year-old might say, for example, 'Me go pee' instead of 'I need the toilet'. And frankly, that's pretty alarming for a 6-year-old. That is what my 2-year-old talks like, a 6-year-old should be way past that situation.The teacher said that they had been teaching for 24 years, and they've never seen this low level of language. And what they’re putting it down to is too much screen time. Just too much TV, too much iPad.And apparently, it's gotten worse since Covid, where screens