What Happens When Toddlers Zone Out With An iPad

online.wsj.com:

More than half of the young children in the U.S. now have access to an iPad, iPhone or similar touch-screen device. For parents, their children's love of these devices raises a lot of questions.

Kids for years have sat too close to the television for too long or played hours of Madden on family room game players. But pediatric neuroscientists and researchers who have studied the effects of screen-time on children suggest the iPad is a different beast.

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Comments

[tanequamscoward]

09:23 AM on 05/23/2012

this is like the most unfinished article ever wtf seriously explain it not just say ohhh by the way they will zone out ipad beast the end really

[carrotandstick]

01:04 AM on 05/23/2012

They zone out. Just like they would looking at a dog, cat, book, shoe string, cartoon, patterns in a carpet, rattle......

Call in the trial attorneys. My iPad made my little genius autistic. My iPhone caused junior's eye to cross. My tablet made my baby cry......because it didn't have an Apple logo on it.

We must put warning labels on them.