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Screen Time, Myopia, and Childhood Eye Health: What Parents Should Know
A parent once told me, only half joking, that her eight-year-old’s tablet had become “the third adult in the house.” It helped with homework, piano practice, video calls with grandparents, rainy afternoons, spelling games, and the occasional restaurant meal that ran too long. Then, at a routine school vision screening, her son failed the distance chart. A few weeks later, he had his first pair of glasses for myopia. The parent’s first question was one I hear often: “Did
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