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re: 10 year Federal NHI study proves smartphones/tablets making our kids retarded
Posted on 12/10/18 at 10:46 am to RealityTiger
Posted on 12/10/18 at 10:46 am to RealityTiger
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But you can fricking believe that we would have when we were kids.
I know this will be hard for you to believe but parents used to limit time watching TV, video games, etc
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Posted on 12/10/18 at 10:51 am to High C
These kids will grow their food in a lab, saving the ecosystem. Those of you critizing technology are the same people in 1899 talking shite about the horseless buggies. You are the indians living in straw huts worshiping the sun. Major changes are coming.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 11:11 am to Dam Guide
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There is a reason high tech billionaires send their kids to speciality low/no tech schools.
In Silicon Valley its Waldarf Academy, the kids cannot have phones, pads, PCs, game devices, at school, or at home, its pencil, paper, books only.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 11:54 am to theunknownknight
I’m not sure why smartphones would make a kid any dumber than my old neighbor who used to sit around and play with Transformers all day long.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 11:55 am to theunknownknight
And the lower and middle class parents are the ones who allow their kids to spend an abundance of time on electronic devices. This will just add more to the widening gap between the upper class and everyone else.
This post was edited on 12/10/18 at 11:57 am
Posted on 12/10/18 at 11:58 am to Pecker
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Got a lot of shitty parents out there (and in here)
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Pecker
Parenting advice from Pecker is always enjoyable.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 11:58 am to Celery
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I’m not sure why smartphones would make a kid any dumber than my old neighbor who used to sit around and play with Transformers all day long.
I'm sure this was said somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but there actually is a difference.
At least your old neighbor was actually engaging his imagination instead of resorting to artificial stimulation to keep his brain and senses occupied.
Technology use =/= intelligence
Being able to operate an ipad or smartphone is simply a learned behavior which is no different from learning how to operate a can opener or a corkscrew.
Sit an eighteen-year-old in front of an old school typewriter and see how "intelligent" he is. Odds are, he'd have no clue how to operate it because it's not the technology he grew up with.
This post was edited on 12/10/18 at 12:03 pm
Posted on 12/10/18 at 12:03 pm to theunknownknight
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Though the difference was significant from participants who spent less screen time, NIH study director Gaya Dowling cautioned against drawing a conclusion.
“We don’t know if it’s being caused by the screen time. We don’t know if it’s a bad thing,”
Dowling said, according to an advance transcript provided by CBS network. “It won’t be until we follow them over time that we will see if there are outcomes that are associated with the differences that we’re seeing in this single snapshot.”
Any OT medical experts want to hypothesize what a thinning of the brain cortex actually does symptomatically, or if its meaningful at all. Because the researchers have no idea.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 12:06 pm to Antonio Moss
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And the lower and middle class parents are the ones who allow their kids to spend an abundance of time on electronic devices. This will just add more to the widening gap between the upper class and everyone else.
Which makes me wonder if the screens are to blame or not. Sounds like it could be a case of correlation =/= causation.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 12:07 pm to UGATiger26
quote:we never allowed any devices at meals or other times when interaction is required.
Well, yeah. That's a big part of the problem. Instead of kids learning how to cope in "boring" situations, we're just slapping a device in their hands. So instead of talking/engaging with other people, they're zoned off in their own world.
The problem now is as they have gotten older their buddies will get on devices instead of play. It is mind boggling
Posted on 12/10/18 at 12:17 pm to theunknownknight
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The interviews and data from the NIH study have already revealed something else: kids who spend more than two hours a day on screens got lower scores on thinking and language tests.
quote:So what is the NHI folks' excuse for being so dumb?
and spend $300 million doing it.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 12:21 pm to slackster
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Parenting advice from Pecker is always enjoyable.
We both know I'd raise tf outa some kids
Posted on 12/10/18 at 1:07 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Why would I find that hard to believe?
Posted on 12/10/18 at 2:47 pm to theunknownknight
WTF is the NHI?
Posted on 12/10/18 at 3:13 pm to theunknownknight
These 10 year olds need to read the OT or PB to reverse this trend!
Posted on 12/10/18 at 4:12 pm to bamafan1001
quote:Sounds like this was the retarded part, as we got adults who wdo this for free.
They'll follow more than 11,000 kids for a decade, and spend $300 million doing it.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 6:17 pm to RealityTiger
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Posted on 12/10/18 at 6:33 pm to theunknownknight
And schools keep trying to push this shite too. My nephew had to buy a tablet for school and that’s what they do their schoolwork on. And surprise suprise he’s now struggling and can’t pay attention. Screens are a distraction and not a replacement for books.
Posted on 12/10/18 at 6:35 pm to theunknownknight
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They'll follow more than 11,000 kids for a decade, and spend $300 million doing it.
I could have told them this and charged a paltry Tree Fiddy
Posted on 12/10/18 at 6:37 pm to AUCE05
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These kids will grow their food in a lab, saving the ecosystem. Those of you critizing technology are the same people in 1899 talking shite about the horseless buggies. You are the indians living in straw huts worshiping the sun. Major changes are coming.
Really? The same kids who aren’t turning in their absentee ballots because they can’t figure out (or can’t even think to ask their handy pocket supercomputer) WHERE TO BUY A STAMP? LINK
C’mon. No one said the issue is the technology; just that it’s way too much, too soon. Each birth cohort is losing critical cognitive and adaptive skills at an alarming rate because we’re substituting technology (especially as entertainment) for solid educational foundations. Technology can be a very effective supplemental learning tool, and kids do need to be technologically literate to keep up with their peers—but it’s completely inappropriate as a full-time substitute for active, hands-on manipulation and kinesthetic learning.
I mean, the research is not that hard to find, and most of it is pretty unequivocal.
But what do I know ... I’m just an old fart who thinks them there new-fangled gadgets are the debbil. 
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