A recent study found handing your toddler an iPad is a bad idea; a new study shows 97% of kids under age 4 have used a mobile device anyway and 75% have a tablet, smartphone, or iPod of their own. The small-scale study—based on the responses of 350 low-income parents in Philadelphia—identified “almost universal exposure, early adoption, and use of mobile media devices among young children,” the lead author tells the CBC.
About 70% of parents said their children used devices unsupervised, including while parents did chores. About 65% said a device was used to appease a child in public, while 25% of parents said they’d left a child with a device at bedtime, though screens generally keep sleep at bay, per the New York Times. Some 44% of kids under 1 and 77% of 2-year-olds used a mobile device daily; a third of 3- and 4-year-olds used more than one device at a time.
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https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/survey-75-of-kids-under-4-have-own-mobile-device-164202575.html
Do you think this is a good idea? I don't.
But I grew up in the black and white TV, pencil, and slide rule era, so I was raised more or less by my parents and public school teachers instead of by an electronic device connected to who knows what.
To this day I prefer a printed paper page to a display screen.
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