Ways Technology Influences Your Child’s Behavior
At our Midwest summer camp, we minimize electronics during camp sessions, to empower our campers to maximize their social development. A recent blog from the good folks at Intelligence for your Life, underscored how electronics influence children’s behavior. Bullets below, with the whole piece available at this link.
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Developmental psychiatrist Dr. Sara Konrath says that kids today consume three times more screen-based media than they did 50 years ago.
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They also score 40 percent lower on tests that measure empathy and compassion for others.
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Videogames are especially harmful because the on-screen violence desensitizes kids to real-world suffering.
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Social media robs kids of the opportunity to learn how to interpret how others feel by using tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language.
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Experts recommend no more than two hours a day for school-aged kids. (And zero screen time for children under two years old…)
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Make sure your children exercise the social parts of their brain by spending a lot of time interacting with and playing with other kids.