It's not kids' screen time you should worry about - it's yours - The European Sting - C... - 0 views
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It’s not kids’ screen time you should worry about – it’s yours
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Emerging research is starting to look at the role that parents’ screen usage has on a child’s development, and the news isn’t good.
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children’s development is being harmed because their parents are constantly distracted by technology.
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The vocal patterns parents everywhere tend to adopt during exchanges with infants and toddlers are marked by a higher-pitched tone, simplified grammar, and engaged, exaggerated enthusiasm. Though this talk is cloying to adult observers, babies can’t get enough of it. Not only that: One study showed that infants exposed to this interactive, emotionally responsive speech style at 11 months and 14 months knew twice as many words at age 2 as ones who weren’t exposed to it,” she writes.
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Children learned the word when the teaching was not interrupted, but when the interaction was interrupted, they didn’t learn the word.
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unwittingly likely to increase the bad behaviour and tantrums that youngsters often rely on to get attention
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Perhaps more alarmingly, Christakis also points out that distracted parents put their children in danger.
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