iChildren

Its really quite disturbing how many people placate their infants and young children by letting them play with their tablets and phones.  Not only is this really age inappropriate, but it also trains children that the most important, fascinating things in the world are on a little box with flashing lights.  I walked through Target last week during the Mommy hour (that's usually around 10am when all the moms are out with their non-school aged kids), and each of the kids I saw in a cart had their mother's phone or tablet.  They all had their heads down, all transfixed by the flashing lights.

What about the real world!?

I find this also particularly stupid because cell phone studies showed that repeated exposure to the radio frequency/electromagnetic field produced by the lithium batteries causes cancer.  These studies were originally conducted in Amsterdam and then repeated by researchers in Australia because of the large public outcry of disbelief.

Well, I don't know about you but my first choice in toys is not a cancer-causing light box for my baby.

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There is also the damage done to the eyes and brain that has been proven, and not just to the retinas, but also the lack in change of focal planes (this is focusing on something close, then something far away).

How many of our children are now going to require glasses for near-sightedness because they were given tablets and phones to play with as children?

Then I hear the arguments about the educational benefits of using tablets and phone apps at an infant and toddler age.

I'm sorry, WHAT!?

What could your toddler or infant possibly need to learn on a computer that they can't learn by actually interacting with it!?  I find it particularly sickening that the Preschools in Eden Prairie offer curricula that is CENTERED around tablet apps.

CENTERED!

Why don't we just all go play on the high power lines!

It's like, where are the Foible blocks!?

Where are the flash cards?!

Where are the nature walks or just looking around the room and interacting with the world around you!?


It's positively sickening.  It's another reason by Eden Prairie is NOT a good place to live (ahem, Money Magazine with your stupid article).  I hope that the large amounts of brain damage that ensues from children using tablets at an early age doesn't spread beyond their own miserable existence.  Perhaps my daughter will become president because she'll know what a plant actually looks like.