What Screen Time and Screen Media Do To Your Child’s Brain and Sensory Processing Ability March 28, 2017
From Hands on OT
March 28, 2017
Excerpts
It”™s a scene we”™re sure you”™ve witnessed again and again:
A family is sitting in a restaurant having dinner. The four year old is clearly fed up with sitting, and starts to complain, jump on her seat or run around. But a few moments later, she”™s quietly in her seat again, enabling her parents and older siblings to enjoy a peaceful meal and conversation for the next 30 minutes.
What happened?
Her father handed her his iPhone.
It”™s a scene we see repeated in doctors”™ waiting rooms, supermarkets, public transportation”¦ and while we entirely understand it, it also saddens us.
So many caring, well-meaning parents are unaware of the developmental damage caused to their children by exposure to screen time and screen media.
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