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<br> <br><p>The AAP has realized that a " simply flip it off" stance just isn't very sensible in the digital age. Thanasis Zovoilis/Getty</p><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><p>The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is changing its mind about "display screen time" - or at least bringing its stance into the total-blown digital age.</p><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><p>The impending revision of the AAP's policy assertion, introduced in October, is pushed by an acknowledgment that its current screen-time guidelines, greatest identified for nixing any screen time for youngsters below 2 and limiting older kids and teenagers to two hours a day, are outdated. Some of the present advice predates widespread Internet use. Ari Brown, a training pediatrician and chair of the AAP Youngsters, Adolescents and Media Leadership Work Group, by way of electronic mail. "Our earlier recommendations were made as a result of we had sufficient health and develop