The World Health Organization just released screen-time guidelines for kids. Here's how some of the world's most successful CEOs limit it at home

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Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel sets limits on the amount of time his kids can spend looking at screens.

• Kids under 5 shouldn't use screens for more than an hour a day, according to the World Health Organization's first-ever guidance on tech use among children.
• Many CEOs already raise their children with limited technology. Some of them include tech titans that helped invent social media or devices that kids use.
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Letting toddlers use screens can be detrimental to their health, according to the first-ever guidance on tech use among children.

The World Health Organization says children under 5 shouldn't spend more than one hour watching screens every day, while children under 1 shouldn't use screens at all. Though the WHO did not specify what harm screen time causes, the organization says tech overuse could contribute to decreasing physical activity that causes death and obesity.

Read more: Parents say a learning app backed by Mark Zuckerberg gave their kids seizures, and its raising concerns about the amount of time students spend staring at screens

Tech titans who created the social media or devices kids use have long been raising their own children gadget-free. Late Apple CEO Steve Jobs did not let his kids play with a then newly invented iPad. Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel - whose platform is popular among young people - has a limit on the amount of tech kids can use.

Elite Silicon Valley parents who raise their kids tech-free reportedly even make their nannies sign "no-phone contracts."

"We know at some point they will need to get their own phones," a Silicon Valley parent previously told Business Insider reporter Chris Weller. "But we are prolonging it as long as possible."

Here are seven CEOs who raise their kids (or, in one case, nephew) tech-free: