When I see a parent just shove a tablet in front of a little kid's face to shut them up, it makes me die a little inside. Of course technology can be used in a beneficial manner, but I can't help but think that it stunts their mental growth.
> A separate study by the same team in 2024 suggested that parents could help counteract some of the brain changes in young children caused by passive screen time by reading to them frequently and engaging more with them in person.
Presumably they haven't found the correlation yet.
