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The three-year study looked at how often babies and toddlers used touchscreens and then measured their attention and eye movement when they were almost at pre-school age (three-and-a-half). Children with higher touchscreen use were both slower to deliberately control their attention, and less able to ignore distracting objects.
The researchers said more studies were needed and that it was hard to say whether daily use of touchscreens in infancy had caused the older children to be more distractible, or whether it was just a case of touchscreens being more appealing to certain children.
They cautioned, however, that there is still a lot we don’t know about the effects of touchscreens on brain development.
It’s important for parents to have support to engage children in the right balance of safe, interesting activities, and handle problems around reducing screen time (such as children having tantrums when devices are taken away).
The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program® can give parents specific information and strategies to help with both of these goals.
Parents can get a greater understanding of child development and behaviour in relation to many other issues too, by doing free Triple P Online in Queensland, or some other type of free Triple P: www.triplep-parenting.net
At a time when mental health and family support services in Australia are stretched to the limit, a newly-published study that compared online and in-person delivery of the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program has found similar results at 12-month follow-up. The large-scale randomised controlled ...
For the next three months, the ‘Supporting Parents with Triple P’ webinar recording will be available online. In this 60-minute webinar, Dr Lisa Studman presents: An overview of the Triple P Online program (TPOL) How practitioners refer parents to TPOL as a first line treatment or early ...
With the last school term of the year just around the corner, many GPs may find themselves in conversations with patients about how their child or teenager is coping with pressure, especially if families are struggling with other health or life complications. As rates of clinical anxiety and depress...
A free two-and-a-half day course to deliver Primary Care Triple P (a brief parenting intervention which includes printed Tip Sheets to help with specific issues) has now been Accredited under the QI&CPD Program for all Queensland GPs. General practice staff in Queensland may also be able to co...
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