After a four-week “screen fast” prescribed by Dr. Dunckley, which eliminated all TVs, phones, and video games, Billy’s problems miraculously cleared up. [More]
The world is one big laboratory, with no one experimenting for short and long term effects.
I wonder if this is related.
Funny, what they do require impact studies for…
[Via bondmen]
Look up “virtual autism”. The TL;DR is, kids raised with too much technology don’t develop socially, don’t learn to speak normally, don’t learn to regulate emotions or emotional outbursts, etc., and the end result looks a LOT like full-blown autism.
Put the screens away and start actively interacting with them — talking, singing, playing games, doing chores, everything — and the “autism” gets much better very quickly.
But that requires real parenting, which looks a lot like work, and nobody likes to do that these days.