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Posted on 03/22/2015 7:01:34 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Are smartphones making our children mentally ill?
Leading child psychotherapist Julie Lynn Evans believes easy and constant access to the internet is harming youngsters
telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11486167/Are-smartphones-making-our-children-mentally-ill.html
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The Association of Teachers and Lecturers warn that rising numbers of children are unable to perform simple tasks such as using building blocks because of overexposure to iPads.
SLEEP PROBLEMS PLAGUE DEVICE DEPENDENT CHILDREN
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/03/03/Sleep-Problems-Plague-Device-Dependent-Children
Cellphones and other devices emit the “blue light” that works against the sleep process by interfering with melatonin, the chemical in our bodies that promotes sleepiness.
TODDLERS BECOMING SO ADDICTED TO IPADS THEY REQUIRE THERAPY
Children as young as four are becoming so addicted to smartphones and iPads that they require psychological treatment.
Life imitates art, as a recent news article shows: “FINNS BEAT U.S. WITH LOW-TECH TAKE ON SCHOOL”, Politico 5/27/14
“At the start of morning assembly in the state-of-the-art Viikki School in Helsinki, students’ smartphones disappear. In math class, the teacher shuts off the Smartboard and begins drafting perfect circles on a chalkboard. The students — some of the highest-achieving in the world — cut up graphing paper while solving equations using their clunky plastic calculators.” (Read More… http://tinyurl.com/lz8w69k )
I trace a lot of this confusion to the indubitable Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner. As Vice-President, he had enormous influence promoting the idea that the mere possession of computers automatically confers educational excellence.
Some of the college students in my classes go into withdrawal during a two hour class where they are not supposed to use their phones.
They appear exactly like those who smoke and chew tobacco products after about 20 minutes. I regularly have to throw them out of class for texting.
The parents just want the kids to be like themselves, unable to pass a few minutes without electronic stimulation.
We had to wait about 15 minutes for a concert to begin last night, and my husband got out his phone so he and our 14-year-old could play a game.
These people simply cannot deal with “down” time.
mmmmm no. They’re just fun toys for them. And yes without good supervision and some lesson teaching kids get obsessed with fun toys. But don’t blame the toy, blame the parents.
LOL! Yup. Take (or try to) away some 13 yr olds cell phone and you WILL see mentally ill. My thought is IF, and that’s a big if, kids have cell phone/smartphone/I-phones etc, that if they are going to school, they turn them in at the beginning of the day and get them back at the end of the day. If they need their parents, they can go to the office and have them call. Too many of them have become overly dependent on IM/Facebook/Twitter etc. Sad ain’t it.
Is it just me, or did other people manage to attend school for a dozen years without needing to contact their parents more than a handful of times?
The voice outside my skull tells me what to do.
Colorado Girl, 12, Accused of Twice Attempting To Poison Mother Who Took Away Her iPhone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3270668/posts
There is such a thing as too much communication!
Watch modern television and note the rapid-fire way so many shows and commercials are presented. Seem to promote ADD in that the subject changes every 15 seconds!
Online cloud storge is only going to make it worse because if there is no net access many won’t be able to function having never learned the use of simple tools and their own brain.
I remember getting sick a couple times in grade school and the lady in the office called my Mom. I don’t think I ever had direct contact in 13 yrs.
LOL! Calling my folks was the last thing I wanted when I was a kid because it probably meant I was in trouble.
Talk to God: Prayer
God talks to you: read the Bible.
I never needed to contact my parents. Neither did my 3 siblings. That’s zero contacts in 52 years.
As soon as the power was lost, there were no more computer-generated dropdown menus full of helpful suggestions to the traveler. No Google, no Bing, no search engines at all. The screen addicts couldn’t light a fire with an entire pack of matches: I’d seen them wasting match after match in the rain. The concept of dry kindling wood had escaped their educations entirely. After their matches and butane lighters were used up during the first winter, they froze to death, providing gear, clothing, and eventually the meat from their very bodies to the more ruthless and better prepared. I’d seen their campsites, and I’d seen their bones. I’d worn their boots.
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Tech addiction for anyone is bad. For kids it’s worse. But the primary cause of induced mental Illness in non-muslim societies is liberalism
I never needed to call my mom either. If I got sick, the principal’s office had a phone. I wonder what the kids call their parents about? Because the mean teacher gave them a poor grade on their paper?
This sounds like an overwhelming consensus of people who made it through their school days out-of-contact with Mom.
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