Can audio-visual media stimulation lead to severe negative growth in executive function skills? How about sensory skills, paraverbal skills, emotional intelligence? How does it become an 'escape' for kids who feel socially out-of-place? In this post, I want to explore the relevance of a growing amount of studies showing that television, Ipad, media time for kids six and under is immediately addictive for the child, and robs them of immediate social creativity. Likewise, the complete loss of all opportunities to develop emotional intelligence, paraverbal skill refinement, and all your executive function skills are turned off once you turn on the media in a immediate way. Study after study has shown that the first five to six years of a child's life are foundational to their neurological development. So the worst thing that you could do to your child is give them an Ipad to watch videos, and have access to 10 Ipad games that can be running all at once. The child lear...
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