Do you spend too much time on your smartphone during mealtime, playtime and routine activities or converstaions with your kids? If so, it may lead to behavioural issues in your children, warned researchers. A study suggests that even low or seemingly normal amounts of technology-related interruption were associated with greater child behaviour problems, such as over-sensitivity, hot temper, hyperactivity and whining. Brandon T. McDaniel, Assistant Professor at Illinois State University in the United States and lead author of the study, said when parents use mobile phones, their responsiveness to their kids changes and the device use causes less-than-ideal interactions with their children. "It's really difficult to toggle attention between all of the important and attention-grabbing information contained in these devices, with social and emotional information from our children, and process them both effectively at the same time", added Jenny Radesky, Child Behaviour Expert. The team had surveyed mothers and fathers from 170 two-parent households.
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