Better keep your smartphone away from your kids

Toddlers who play with smartphones are at an increased 

risk of impeding their brain development, experts have 

warned.

According to a new study, 25 per cent of kids as old as two 

years old and younger have their own smartphones, which 

parents say is used as a learning tool for their kids.

However, experts say it is too young for children to be 

utilising this type of technology and that the kids are not 

learning but are just being given the phone as a distraction.

Experts are concerned because this type of smartphone use, 

at such a young age, can impede early development in 

areas that would impact the child for the rest of their lives.

Since childhood is a time for serious brain development, 

children could face problems with their basic social, verbal 

and learning skills.

Psychiatrist said that this type of smartphone use could 

actually hurt the child and that "this is really for 

babysitting purposes or the fear that your child can't be 

bored."

"These years are the years that you need to be developing 

vocabulary, which means speaking and listening, so if 

you're engaged in a gadget, you're really minimising that," 

she said.

"We've seen all kinds of data now on play and how 

important it is to, frankly, be bored and be stimulated to do 

imaginative play, what that does for building creativity," 

she said.

She said that parents should realise that a smartphone is 

"structured time" and does not allow for free thinking.

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