Study: Limiting kids' screen time improves brain function

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19. What about you when you were young did your mother give you a cell phone to be entertained?

Scientifically we don’t know the long term risks of exposure to cell phones and iPads. Kids brains are being rewired and the rich experience of experiencing things is limited to a small screen. I have taken many child development classes and learned a lot about children’s brain development. You want to expose them to new things and don’t forget interactions with other people. I am a teacher and those kids who are iPad, cell phone obsessed are less verbal and their social skills are lacking versus kids who parents limit their cell phone/iPad use. I ask the kids in kindergarten who plays with cell phones vs those who parents don’t allow their kids and observed how the kids who don’t get to use cell or iPads are more social and attention spans.

There are many private schools in Silicon Valley who do not use computers until kids are in middle school. I wonder why?

But you should research this on your own.