{"id":1187,"date":"2025-05-18T14:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:29:24","slug":"microsoft-wants-your-kids-to-play-games-15-hours-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/18\/microsoft-wants-your-kids-to-play-games-15-hours-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wants your kids to play games 15 hours a day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like many parents we use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/de-ch\/microsoft-365\/family-safety\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/de-ch\/microsoft-365\/family-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Family Safety<\/a> to limit screen time of our children. It turns out that the default screen time is &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">15 HOURS PER DAY !!!!!<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Time-1024x490.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Time-1024x490.png 1024w, https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Time-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Time-768x367.png 768w, https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Time-1003x480.png 1003w, https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Time.png 1373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So when you register a Microsoft device (e.g. Windows computer or Xbox) for your 9 year old, the default screen time for your 9 year old is 15 hours. Actually, the default setting is: no control of screen time. Isn&#8217;t this hilarious? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Microsoft, it is very nice that you have an App to limit screen time of our children. It is possibly a fact that many parents are overwhelmed with managing the opportunities and threats of today&#8217;s technology together with their kids and will not apply screen time at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, wouldn&#8217;t it be a service to those parents who care about the health of their children to start with a default screen time of 1 hour upon registration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many parents we use Microsoft Family Safety to limit screen time of our children. It turns out that the default screen time is &#8230; 15 HOURS PER DAY !!!!! So when you register a Microsoft device (e.g. Windows computer or Xbox) for your 9 year old, the default screen time for your 9 year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/18\/microsoft-wants-your-kids-to-play-games-15-hours-a-day\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[263,265,261,264,262],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-children","tag-health","tag-microsoft","tag-parental","tag-screen-time","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluemarble.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}