They Can Text, But Can They Talk? - 0 views
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Actual conversation is becoming a thing of the past
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and that's not good for our kids' future.
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They don't know how to handle conflict face to face because so many things happen through some sort of technology," said Melissa Ortega, a child psychologist at New York's Child Mind Institute. "Clinically, I'm seeing it in the office. The high school kids who I do see will be checking their phones constantly. They'll use it as an avoidance strategy. They'll see if they got a text message in the two minutes they were talking to me."
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Now we have an escape route, a Blackberry or iPhone, available any time a stranger (gasp!) starts up an elevator conversation.
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Gary Small, a neuroscientist and author of "iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind."
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"They haven't had these years of learning about awkward pauses. Being able to tolerate the discomfort is not something they're going to be used to, unless their parents make it a priority."
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"We're seeing very, very young children being given these devices to soothe them and to entertain them, and it's displacing the connection with the parent," said Rowan.
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Our brains have evolved to like constant stimulation and variety,"
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Humans send many nonverbal cues, from fidgeting to foot tapping, long pauses to eye contact.
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young people are not learning when they're using these devices
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they may have trouble initiating interactions, those small talk situations. They don't have as much experience doing it because they're not engaging in it
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Cris Rowan, a pediatric occupational therapist,
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"We're seeing escalating diagnoses of all sorts of mental illness in children.
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children that aren't happy and aren't well-adjusted."
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British neuroscientist warned that Internet use may be rewiring our brains and leading to attention deficits. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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"As children and parents are attaching more and more to technology, they're detaching from each other, and we know as a species we need to connect," Rowan said.
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in much the same way that reclusive youths turned to television and gaming systems in the past, so might today's teens turn to computer screens and smartphones.
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so there's no creativity, there's no imagination, no self-initiation," Rowan said.
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The ability to self-regulate -- that is, to manage our own emotions and behavior -- is being undermined, too,
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When Children Text All Day, What Happens To Their Social Skills?
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Parents have a long list of concerns about children using technology: Will they be hurt by cyber bullying? Or meet with online predators? Will their homework suffer because they're texting 100 times a day? Are they sexting? But what about a more basic question like, Will they be able to hold their own in conversation?
