The American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) recently revised its guidelines on screen time for kids. The new recommendations offer helpful advice for parents trying to keep up with a world that has gone from Saturday morning cartoons to nonstop digital media exposure.
For years, the AAP advised a 2 hour limit on screen time for children over 2, and no screen time for younger children. Today, they’re recommending no digital media for infants up to 18 months, and one hour for children 2 to 5. [Read more…]
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Students face special challenges to the eyes when they are under academic performance pressure. Lack of sleep, prolonged computer use and long hours studying make for tired eyes that are dry, scratchy and achy. 
School is right around the corner so what better way to get into the groove than with fun and interesting facts about our eyes. They do their job so well that we can easily take the miracle of sight for granted. Let’s take a minute to reflect on a few: 
Eyeglasses are indeed one of the astounding and essential discoveries of the mankind. It is said that without the eyeglasses it would have been an impossible for task for many other inventions to happen. This discovery was done somewhere in the 1200’s, however the real person who have discovered the lens and the eyeglasses is still a mystery. 
