This headline probably doesn't surprise any parents, and we recognize that it's not realistic to cut out electronics as a soothing tool completely, that's why we offer up some alternative approaches in the piece.
looked at hundreds of parents and children aged 3 to 5 to determine how the use of mobile devices as calming tools impacts child development.
“When we were young, we threw a tantrum to express our emotions and to make demands because we could not verbalize our emotions and needs,” says, an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong and research associate at Harvard University who was not involved with the study. “When we grow up, we learn that verbal communication is much more effective and much less damaging than throwing tantrums.
“If electronic devices keep replacing a child’s opportunities to learn verbalizing social-emotional needs in the most sociable moments, the child can only burst all those emotions into tears, or innate those anger and fear behind timid silence,” Chen says.Aside from the impact of mobile devices on kids, it’s also crucial to investigate the reasons caregivers use them as calming tools in the first place.
But the immediate relief electronics provide both child and parent may inadvertently establish a reliance on them; therefore, it’s necessary to help upset children work through their emotions rather than distracting them from what they’re feeling. This allows them to build the skills they will need when faced with future distress.It wouldn’t be realistic to completely cut out the use of electronic devices as a soothing tool.
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