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Interesting experiment: ten screen-less days for kids

A group of 259 French school kids aged between 6 and 11 in the Alsace are volunteering in an experiment that deprives them of screen entertainment for ten days. No TV, no games, no Internet — just books, sports, museum visits and human interaction. The children have been prepared for the test, and get points for “good” behavior.

If the experiment is successful it will be extended across a larger group of school children.

The idea is not to tell kids that screens are bad, but to make them aware of life without electronic entertainment.

Recent statistics show that the French spend on average 3.5 hours per day watching TV; kids are at 2.5 hours. Internet time comes on top of that. Six in ten households in France have at least six screens, and it is estimated that half of all French children spend half their spare time interacting with TV, computer or game screens.

Source (in French)