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Are smartphones making our children mentally ill?
Telegraph UK ^ | 7:00AM GMT 21 Mar 2015 | By Peter Stanford

Posted on 03/22/2015 7:01:34 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell

Are smartphones making our children mentally ill?

Leading child psychotherapist Julie Lynn Evans believes easy and constant access to the internet is harming youngsters

telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11486167/Are-smartphones-making-our-children-mentally-ill.html

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brain; childhood; computer; crazy; mental; psychology; technology
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To: CharlesOConnell

No, smartphones are tools. It is the parents who are messing up the kids by using smartphones as babysitters and entertainment 24/7.


21 posted on 03/22/2015 7:41:07 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: CharlesOConnell

last week I was in a restaurant and sisters at the adjacent table were texting each other although face to face across their table


22 posted on 03/22/2015 7:41:32 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Tax-chick

LOL! Well, in trouble or injured in some manner. Other than that, I think I made it okay. Of course that was a long time ago. Loooongggg!


23 posted on 03/22/2015 7:42:16 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: hoosierham

Watch an MTV produced movie, you’ll have a seizure.


24 posted on 03/22/2015 7:45:35 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: rktman

I got sick a few times. If you were throwing up or had a high fever, the nurse would call your mother.


25 posted on 03/22/2015 7:45:54 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)
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To: EEGator; hoosierham

I was at the gym recently, and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” was on a television near me. It was filmed in about 3-second segments.

I don’t wear my glasses at the gym, so figuring out what I’m seeing on the screen helps to pass the time on the elliptical trainer.


26 posted on 03/22/2015 7:47:44 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)
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To: Tax-chick
Back in the 50s and 60s there were no "helicopter parents" that I knew of. Now it's pretty common I believe.

It's not totally illogical though. Because the middle class economy has been battered so thoroughly, there are a fair number of parents who feel compelled to get their kids into top line colleges thinking this will perhaps give them a shot at becoming Masters of the Universe. Or perhaps sports superstars.

27 posted on 03/22/2015 7:49:20 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Tax-chick

A lot of new garbage is just like that. All they need now is to add some JJ Abrahms lens flares...


28 posted on 03/22/2015 7:52:44 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Tax-chick

I needed to get my phone-less freshman a message several times last year concerning after school schedule changes and such. When I called the office to ask them to get the message to him, there would be much fumbling and stuttering about how that should be accomplished. After one such request, the receptionist told me that they really don’t have a good way to get a message to a student and doesn’t my son have a phone? I replied simply, “No”. I thought this was a rather ridiculous question with a rather obvious answer and didn’t feel the need to justify my reasons to her.

So, it seems that there is no longer a mechanism for parents to communicate without providing a radiation generating device for our children to hold up to their still developing heads. Luckily, my kid is responsible and I gave him a pay as you go flip phone for emergencies which he keeps off in his pocket because it is very practical to have, but this mindless rush to dismantle other means of communication is disturbing.


29 posted on 03/22/2015 7:56:12 AM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: EEGator

The camera-swooping in the action shows my teenagers watch makes me nauseous.


30 posted on 03/22/2015 7:57:47 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)
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To: Fresh Wind
Kids getting grounded in the 1950's vs. today! Vine
31 posted on 03/22/2015 8:01:04 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: CharlesOConnell

More like morally depraved, not mentally ill . . .


32 posted on 03/22/2015 8:01:11 AM PDT by pilipo (GOP=Gutless Old Party)
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To: mom of young patriots
After one such request, the receptionist told me that they really don’t have a good way to get a message to a student and doesn’t my son have a phone?

That is pretty shocking because it doesn't seem that complicated. Just walk a note over to the child's teacher - or text her. How hard can that be?

33 posted on 03/22/2015 8:08:18 AM PDT by KittyKares (.)
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To: CharlesOConnell

At my daughter’s school this year all the “material” for their classes was on an iPad. And they were emailing assignments all night. I like being on the internet, and some things are quicker on the internet, but it has added to the mass confusion. I would much rather read a regular book.


34 posted on 03/22/2015 8:13:49 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: samtheman

You went to school for 52 years? (haha just kidding)


35 posted on 03/22/2015 8:15:04 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: bert

well you don’t get eavesdropped on and you don’t have to holler


36 posted on 03/22/2015 8:16:27 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: mom of young patriots

It sounds like the office staff likes sitting around doing nothing.


37 posted on 03/22/2015 8:30:40 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)
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To: KittyKares

That’s what I thought, too. When did such a simple thing as human communication become so overly complicated?


38 posted on 03/22/2015 8:32:57 AM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: Tax-chick

Probably playing on their iphones.


39 posted on 03/22/2015 8:34:03 AM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: CharlesOConnell
True story.

My nephew was doing demolition work, and he found one of these:

He brought it home and gave it to his nephew, who is about 5, and said, "here's a phone to play with!"

The 5 year old (who is a bit of a spoiled brat to start with) immediately burst into tears. His idea of a phone is an iPhone 6.

40 posted on 03/22/2015 8:34:10 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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