Why is it vital that you bring your children into the wild 40 minutes a day?

The added time for children before screens during the pandemic has sparked appeals for greater interaction and open-air exercises to improve the learning process and avoid a miopian epidemic.

Last time online, it grew dramatically last year. Millions of students worldwide were forced to pass on online instruction while the use of social media reached the sky.

Qustodio, a website that tracks the use of tens of thousands of devices by children between 4 and 15 years of age in Britain, the US and Spain, says that in Great Britain alone, internet access has been 100 percent higher this month than January 2020. And here they lead YouTube, TickTok and BBC News. While the average daily time spent on the Internet has increased by 15 percent.

A study conducted in China last week showed that there was a three-time increase in miopia among six to eight-year-olds in 2020, caused mainly by house stay and online learning. It is not clear whether this growth has been caused by more time on screens or less time spent in nature, but previous studies have suggested that exposure to natural light is essential.

Bringing children out for 40 minutes more, a school day, results in a 10 percent reduction in miopia in three years. While spending much time in nearby objects, between screens and books, it damages the growth of the eye.