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Giving toddlers video games or movies stunts their brain development, their attention span, and is a terrible idea. The thing that infants and toddlers want an
by reverend_gonzo 7y ago
Giving toddlers video games or movies stunts their brain development, their attention span, and is a terrible idea.
The thing that infants and toddlers want and need more than anything is loving attention from their parents or other adult figures.
- kick 7y agoGiving toddlers video games or movies stunts their brain development, their attention span, and is a terrible idea. There isn't substantial evidence for the view that video games stunt brain development in toddlers, and they've been shown to have a positive effect for older children: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2013-4021 https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2013-4021 Further, given that video game therapy has been shown to be successful in mitigating ADHD, your claim of video games universally negatively impacting attention is also patently false. The thing that infants and toddlers want and need more than anything is loving attention from their parents or other adult figures. This is practically parenting-magazine pseudoscience, and taken to its implicit conclusion is incredibly harmful. Toddlers do not need constant attention from authority figures. They need some, not a helicopter, and they need external stimulus. Toddlers are not infants.