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Activities for children where they learn real-life skills are far healthier than screen use.
Cris A. Rowan's book, Virtual Child, describes the dangers to children created by screen use.
Excluding screen use by children helps create a bright future for your child.
Handheld Devices should be banned for children under the age of 12, AND screens and technology should be severely limited with all children.
Why? The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Society of Pediatrics say:
Because use of screen technology (TV, cell phones, electronic games, internet, iPads, tablets, computers) is associated with:
Pediatricians report seeing patients age 3 to 6 years old who have become addicted to their devices and do not sleep more than 4 hours a night, and cannot cope with the device being taken away.
High frequency gamma brainwaves are associated with perception and higher brain activity, and are present when a child is telling a story, listening to a story, drawing or playing imaginatively with other children.
Research shows this brain activity flatlines (is ABSENT) when children are on screens. This is serious, especially in a child whose brain should be rapidly developing at age 2... or 3... or 4... or 8 or 9…
Instead, the doctors are seeing the children because they do not sleep, have delayed speech and have persistent headaches, ADD, ADHD.
The terrifying truth is that technology is taking our children’s futures! Read: Virtual Child: The Terrifying Truth About What Technology is Doing to Children by Cris A. Rowan . (See the left column to order this book.)
We have gone down the wrong path. Technology as a learning mechanism is just plain wrong. I know, I know. How could alll these educators be wrong? We don’t know until we know. Now we are seeing the results, number 1 through 10, above.
Protect your child. Take away the handheld devices; seriously limit ALL screens - TV’s, movies, games, iPads, tablets and all!
Why? The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Society of Pediatrics say:
Because use of screen technology (TV, cell phones, electronic games, internet, iPads, tablets, computers) is associated with:
- stunted, delayed, impaired, and decreased brain growth.
- developmental delays, poorer literacy, poorer learning and poorer academic achievement;
- obesity and diabetes;
- poor sleep;
- poorer grades;
- mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety, attachment disorder, attention deficit disorder, autism, bipolar disorder, psychosis, behavioral problems and aggression;
- decreased concentration and memory, due to the brain not developing neuronal tracks to the frontal cortex;
- addictions;
- radiation illnesses, including cancer. Children are more sensitive than adults because their brains and immune systems are still developing;
- lack of a good future.
Pediatricians report seeing patients age 3 to 6 years old who have become addicted to their devices and do not sleep more than 4 hours a night, and cannot cope with the device being taken away.
High frequency gamma brainwaves are associated with perception and higher brain activity, and are present when a child is telling a story, listening to a story, drawing or playing imaginatively with other children.
Research shows this brain activity flatlines (is ABSENT) when children are on screens. This is serious, especially in a child whose brain should be rapidly developing at age 2... or 3... or 4... or 8 or 9…
Instead, the doctors are seeing the children because they do not sleep, have delayed speech and have persistent headaches, ADD, ADHD.
The terrifying truth is that technology is taking our children’s futures! Read: Virtual Child: The Terrifying Truth About What Technology is Doing to Children by Cris A. Rowan . (See the left column to order this book.)
We have gone down the wrong path. Technology as a learning mechanism is just plain wrong. I know, I know. How could alll these educators be wrong? We don’t know until we know. Now we are seeing the results, number 1 through 10, above.
Protect your child. Take away the handheld devices; seriously limit ALL screens - TV’s, movies, games, iPads, tablets and all!
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