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Why our attention spans are shrinking, with Gloria Mark, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Children Need Self Control for Learning and War and War

Children that are as young as two to four years old, they already average 2 and a half hours of screen time a day. The problem is that when children are very young, there are certain parts of their brain that are not yet mature. I find it problematic that we're putting children into a digital world before some critical mental functions are fully developed.

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