Child under Age 16 Form

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98% of American homes with children now have an electronic mobile device and on average kids eight and under spend more than two hours a day looking at a screen is that too much or could there actually be developmental benefits to screen time this is your brain on where we explore how the world affects our brains and ourselves young brains need a lot of external stimuli to develop particularly from birth to age three what's known as the critical period it's during this time that childrens neurons are making connections for fundamental skills such as vision hearing and language but these needs are based on centuries of human evolution which used to have nothing to do with screens consider a child watching a video instead of listening to parents read a book it's a far different experience for the brain rather than kids learning to focus and imagine the story the device presents everything to them so certain cognitive systems become underdeveloped and when children spend too much time in