“My 3-year-old daughter spends 4 hours a day on her iPad…she’s an addict“
Are we raising a generation of addicted techno tots? It emerged this week that a four-year-old needed psychiatric treatment for her iPad addiction. And half of all parents let their children use tablets or smartphones – yet 81 per cent of mums and dads worry about the psychological effect, with many tots throwing tantrums when gadgets are taken away.
It astonishes me the amount of times I see a family eating out and parents handing their kids a tablet to play on whilst eating dinner. I can only assume that this is to prevent them from playing up, or to keep them preoccupied so they can converse with their partner, or something along these lines. But what a message this is to be pass on to children.
Well, I think these days the dad preferes his breakfast with the iPad as well, so why wouldn’t his kid?