Over a third of babies now use smartphones - before they walk and talk

[Street Knowledge]

The news is startling pediatricians. A new medical study reveals that the tiniest Americans are tapping on smartphones and tablets even before they learn to walk or talk, and by 1 year of age, one in seven toddlers is using devices for at least an hour a day.

The research found that even a third of the babies under a year could scroll down the screen, while a fourth managed to actually call someone.

“We didn’t expect children were using the devices from the age of 6 months. Some children were on the screen for as long as 30 minutes,” says Dr. Hilda Kabali, lead author of the study, which was conducted among 370 parents and their babies at a pediatrics clinic in the Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia.

Mobile devices are becoming babysitters. Dr. Kabali found that 60 percent of the parents in the study allowed their toddlers to play with http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...mart-phones-they-walk-and-talk/#ixzz3YRLe002m
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[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

i believe it. my two year old niece works her little ipad like a charm. granted, she's playing kiddy games and stuff on it but i'd imagine if she had an iphone, she'd be using it just the same...

 

[FeloniousMonk]

First t.v, now the ipad.

How long before people are leaving their kids with robots..

 

[606onit]

Amazing.....the human connection is finna be dead brehs. Do parents even read bedtime stories anymore? Class of the early-mid 80s super lucky. We're the last american humans

 

[calixprynce]

Technology

 

[Sandy_Cheeks]

This isn't good. This has to impact their developing minds in a negative way.

 

[Mowgli]

My son navigates youtube with ease.

We still read books to him before he goes to bed though

 

[MAKAVELI25]

This isn't good. This has to impact their developing minds in a negative way.

They have more access to information than any generation before them, there's less and less reasons to be ignorant about things that are common knowledge. There's definitely some cons to this, but there are pros too

 

[TheBeigeBomber]

They have more access to information than any generation before them, there's less and less reasons to be ignorant about things that are common knowledge. There's definitely some cons to this, but there are pros too

so we gonna have a generation of pseudo intilleshuals with no life experience

 

[Sad Bunny]

I was mind blown when my 4 year old nephew said let me see your phone and knew how to access youtube

 

[MAKAVELI25]

so we gonna have a generation of pseudo intilleshuals with no life experience

What the difference between how much time they spend on those gadgets and how much time YOU spend online?

 

[TheBeigeBomber]

What the difference between how much time they spend on those gadgets and how much time YOU spend online?

i actuallly have a life. do you know how much weed i smoked last night and today? do you know how much i drunk this weekend?

 

[Sandy_Cheeks]

They have more access to information than any generation before them, there's less and less reasons to be ignorant about things that are common knowledge. There's definitely some cons to this, but there are pros too

True. But it's like people don't even have to think anymore. Critical thinking skills are bout non-existent along with actual communication. The very thing decades before us relied on. I agree there are pros and cons, but I just wonder how all of this technology will actually impact cognitive development in babies and children

 

[Sandy_Cheeks]

My son navigates youtube with ease.

We still read books to him before he goes to bed though

Can he read?

 

[Flash Thunderton]

70s and 80s babies the WOAT parents