Sentences with phrase «spend more screen time»

This foreknowledge allows writers to spend more screen time developing the story, which, in this case, is paced superbly with some very cool «tricks.»

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MacMillan definitely understands what the iPad has wrought, and admits he spends more time with that particular screen than any other these days.

There may be many reasons for these trends, but adults are also spending more time with screens than they used to.

These links between happiness and time use are worrying news, as the current generation of teens (whom I call «iGen» in my book of the same name) spends more time with screens than any previous generation.

We're either slightly hunched over (this is becoming more common thanks to all the time we spend looking at screens), in a «pelvic posture,» with hips trust forward like someone wearing high heels, or in what he terms «the heart posture.»

Technology has changed the way we work so much so that we now spend more time sitting in front of computer and video screens than ever before.

It's true, people spend more time indoors, they tend to know their neighbors less, some of those traditional activities have been supplanted by talking to people on Facebook or email, playing video games and watching movies on our big screen TVs.

Personally, I want to spend more time away from the screen and get real life inspiration.

In almost all studies the results show that «screen - based reading behavior is characterized by more time spent on browsing and scanning, keyword spotting, one - time reading, non-linear reading and reading more selectively.»

Why: There just aren't enough great VR experiences, but perhaps Facebook can get people spending more time in their headsets by creating a virtual big screen for 2D content.

Americans spend more time choosing a restaurant or flat - screen TV than planning for retirement, according to a recent survey by financial services provider TIAA - CREF.

She explained: «I think there is a massive question over the whole idea of encouraging younger and younger children to spend more and more time glued to screens.»

All clubs spend a lot of time and money doing far more elaborate statistical modelling than then the headline grabber stats that SSN sticks up on its screen every 5 minutes.

They've often settled for moments of shock value over substance, and while they've spent the last few years trying to correct that course — eliminating the Divas Belt and replacing it with Women's Championships, getting rid of the concept of «Divas» altogether by naming their women performers «Superstars» like the men, and introducing more screen time and more talented performers from around the globe — there remains work to be done.

Linemen in spread offenses start in two - point stances and spend more time screening off defenders instead of moving them off the line than pro teams do.

Podcasts can promote your child's creativity and imagination without spending more time in front of a screen.

On the other hand, since you and mom are going to be spending more time at home, a big screen TV may be a prudent purchase (make sure her favorite movie is playing when she first sees it).

You will be allowing them to practice social skills, and even better, reduce the amount of time they spend watching TV, considering that most children nowadays spend more than seven and a half hours a day in front of a screen; TV, video games, computer.

We spend a lot more time with our screens than we may realize.

While their parents spent free time in activities like a neighborhood game of tag, building forts, or climbing trees, the modern child's day includes far more screen time than green time.

Though I do believe there is no weather, just bad clothing, February is a month where we spend more time indoors than say, April.The problem with more indoors time... [Read more...] about Screen Free Boredom Busters for Kids

To reduce the amount of time kids spend in front of the screens available to them in today's media - saturated world, parents must incorporate more physical activity and outdoor playtime into their children's daily routines.

Encourage your teen to limit screen time to no more than 2 hours daily, not including time spent on homework.

Studies show that children who spend a lot of time in front of screens are more likely to get lower grades.

Add to that the increased fear of the outdoors and general lack of trust in society from most parents, and it's not surprisingly at all that children are spending more and more time indoors behind a screen.

Parents often complain that their kids watch too much TV and spend too much time in front of screens, all the while giving them more and more access to these devices.

One of the best ways to get kids to be more active is to limit the amount of time spent in sedentary activities, especially watching TV or other screens.

Calculating the amount of time your child spends looking at a screen on a normal day will help you find out if you need to set limits on screen time and encourage them to spend more time on other activities.

Screen - Free Week highlights the opportunity for the entire family to unplug from digital entertainment and spend more time reading, playing, daydreaming, creating and exploring.

As a group, kids from ages 6 months to 3 years who spent more time using mobile touch screen devices got less sleep at night.

On average, they found that teens who spent more time in front of screen devices — playing computer games, using social media, texting and video chatting — were less happy than those who invested more time in non-screen activities like sports, reading newspapers and magazines, and face - to - face social interaction.

Considering that children average more than 40 hours of screen time a week, not counting time spent on a computer at school, even small changes can make a difference, researchers said.

«While screens are contributing to children spending more time indoors than in previous years, the research shows they are not the direct cause of the increased incidence of myopia,» he said.

Factors like increase in artificial light, more time spent looking at TV and computer screens, more stress and fewer nutrients in diet may all contribute to a decline in eye health as well.

Children are spending more time on screens than ever.

«People spend way too much time on screens,» she says, and more importantly, not snoozing.

Limit screen time to no more than two hours a day (this includes time spent on the computer, iPad, in front of the TV, etc..)

According to a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, individuals who spend four or more hours of leisure time per day sitting in front of a screen (whether it be computer or TV) have a 48 percent increased risk of death from any cause, and a 125 percent increased risk of having a heart problem that results in hospitalization, compared to those who spend less than two hours a day relaxing in front of the TV / computer.

I am turning off screens and things to read, spend time with my family, and spend more time outside in nature.

I think the summer months might be slow since people go out camping, cottaging or simply, spend more time away from the computer screen.

Apparently what singles want more than anything is a reason to spend even more time staring at the screens of their smartphones, swiping through photo after photo of potential partners.

That being said, I always spend more time in creating strange words on the front screen than playing the actual stages.

And with such a vast slate of small - screen comedic options — ranging from low - brow to high, broad to eccentrically specific, and including network standouts like Black - ish and cable / streaming gems such as Veep, Insecure, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and many more — it's hard to argue that anyone should spend time or money on this.

This game is definitely aimed at the younger Pokemaniacs, but older fans like myself can still get enjoyment out of it if they keep an open mind, it's not as good as the first PokePark game do to looser controls and by just not being as much fun, but it manages to expand on what the first game offered in the way of new content, for instance this time you don't just play as Pikachu but also Tepig, Snivy, and Oshawott after you meet them, and you can switch between them on the fly anytime you want, and you'll need to use each of their special abilities in your adventure, it also adds side - scrolling sections and a few other new features to keep things fresh, it also has some multiplayer attractions to play with so that's also nice, and you'll still be befriending all sorts of Pokemon just like the last game, you also get free roam after the main quest so you can make sure to befriend them all, and it's all adorable do to the cute graphics and world, even the loading screens are adorable, and as a gamer who typically plays more serious and violent games it was nice to spend time in the lighthearted PokePark with some of my favorite Pokemon, I recommend it and I definitely see myself returning in the days to come.

We spent the next five years or more watching talented TV teens and sitcom stars make the big screen leap to slashers, mostly with weak results, but Scream stands the test of time.

The action and set pieces look rather solid, The movie has some interesting twists in it, Arnie appears to have some serious screen time, Jason Clarke seems to get more and more bad - ass, so based on this trailer, I would be prepared to spend my $ 10 on this.

Washington is now approaching his 60th birthday and he's spent more than a quarter of a century on the big screen, breaking into the big time when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor on the back of 1989's Glory and became a household name in the 1990s with the likes of Malcolm X, The Pelican Brief, Philadelphia, Crimson Tide and Courage Under Fire.

I like to think that 1983's Vacation would have spent more time poking fun at inherent social injustices than poking a penis around the screen but alas, who knows.

You almost wish that more time was spent exploring all 23 of the alters (only about 6 are given any screen time), but what Shyamalan and McAvoy have given us is fascinating to watch.

Fortunately, Cartel Land spends considerably more screen time in Mexico, where the real action is.