Crankier babies get more TV time
By Randy DotingaHealthDay reporter
Monday, 14 April 2014 HealthDay News)-picky and demanding babies are likely to more time have something before a TV or computer screen, when they're toddlers, as "simple" babies, new findings of research.
It is not clear what this realization. Parents could try to get a break from their elaborate childrenor the children, of course, could be considered on screens. The study does not explore what the children saw, so it is not clear whether these extra minutes "Screen" - an average of nine minutes per day - were harmful, beneficial, or somewhere in between.
But the most important insight is still interesting, said study author Dr. Jenny Radesky fellow at the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center do. "The children really had trouble with regulating their emotions, is calming and sleep to watch significantly more media liquidation when they were babies," she said.
Radesky launched the study to young children, like their own, better understanding of which can be awkward and difficult. "I know how stressful it can be experience for young parents as a parent ," she said.
It temporary might not, said Radesky. Elaborate children in elaborate adults can grow, a hard time, dealing with life and have its challenges, she said.
But it is not clear how much too cumbersome and irritable --for 2 years or age 52 years-has to do with genes and how much education and other factors has to do. And is demanding a generally poor property for an adult is not necessarily. It might be someone, for example, a fine CEO.
Radesky wanted the question of "screen time"-sitting in front of a computer monitor or TV screen to explore.
She and her colleagues moved statistics from surveys of parents 7.450 children were born in 2001 and tracked for a few years. At the age of 9 months were 39 percent as moderate or severe problems with so-called "self-regulation," suggesting, that they usually at artworks and irritable and demanding than the other children.
These children looked at screens an average of 2 hours and 29 minutes per day, according to her parents, nine minutes more than the average level of "screen-time" for the other children.
Some parents may not be properly indicated how much screen time, that to have their children, could be the numbers wrong to have. The study is outdated a bit the screen when it comes to the development time: parents before the start of the iPads and Smartphones were interviewed.
Usually frown on researchers to expose children of all ages with screen of lots of time. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under 2 years of age no television "or other entertainment media" because they learn best through interaction with people.
Of course, not many parents follow these guidelines, because their children to occupy, so that they can work, housework or just want to relax.
Douglas Gentile, an associate professor of psychology at Iowa State University, praised the study and pointed to a potential risk of TV as a way to deflect troublesome children use.
The question, he said, is whether the child is to learn a valuable tool. "We all use strategy media as coping. You have a busy day at work, and you want to flop just in front of the TV. But distraction is a low-level problem solving-strategy. "Is what happens when the only skill, what you've got?"
Gentile acknowledged that questions remain. For example he said the still not researchers determined whether screen picky and demanding children could make even more picky and demanding time.
In a second study in the same journal researchers at MassGeneral found hospital for children and the Harvard School of public health an association between more TV ads / have a TV in the bedroom in the early childhood and shorter sleep, especially for minority children.
What's next for research? Radesky said, a study to be published soon illuminate is kids are actually watching what, when they "screen time." The current study, check the content of programming, i.e. There is no way to know whether it is educational.
"I would like to know whether this is a good thing," she said. "Get parents a break from their children more intense by you [she] front of educational media?" "It is worse, because they miss more training activities or are?"
The study was published online April 14 and will appear in the may issue of the journal Pediatrics.
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Sources: Jenny Radesky, m.d., fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center; Douglas Gentile, Ph.d., Associate Professor, psychology, Ames, Iowa State University; May 2014, Pediatrics
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