“No screens before age 3.”
The rule is known to everyone, but seems completely obsolete at a time when smartphones are being introduced into children's lives from birth.
In maternity wards, 81% of midwives often note the systematic presence of screens in the rooms following delivery.
During their home visits, 83% of childcare workers report the presence of screens
“on in the background, without anyone really looking at them”
.
62% often observe that parents stay on their phone while caring for their child.
These early childhood specialists also make the almost unanimous observation that parents' smartphones are used in strollers, given to calm anger or become an essential accessory for meals... Questioned as part of the 2nd barometer of the Foundation for Children , carried out with Ifop, 300 health professionals (midwives and childcare nurses) interviewed testify to this omnipresence…
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