In early September, Folkhälsomyndigheten, the catchily named Swedish health authority, issued new advice on screens. Children should have zero exposure to them before the age of two, it said, with strict caps on screen time for two to five, six to 12 and 13 to 18 year olds.
Like any good student, I swotted up during my first pregnancy. By the time my daughter was born, I had a mini library of titles to equip me with essential baby knowledge, childbearing’s answers to Delia Smith: Your Baby, Week by Week, charting the typical development of a baby during its first six months, or What to Expect: The First Year, which promises “the info you need to get from cooing to crawling and everything in between”.
Programmes like Operation Ouch! helped to normalise the hospital environments that so often surrounded her. Others, like Peppa Pig, soothed. While my experience is rare, I don’t think the exiling effect of much of this parenting advice is. Context is everything, but the Swedish guidelines generalise with a cold idealism.
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