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welcome back in this age of technology more children than ever before becoming
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glued to the screen parents zhe sound familiar to you will a recent study
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finds that even when children are unplugged
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they have difficulty focusing on just one task
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conical sekali psychologist doctor robert reynolds of the connecticut
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educational services in middletown is here to talk about
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technology addiction among kids first or how big of an issue is this wells
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becoming ah... a bigger no issue as every day passes
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you know it's a timely store that you're doing here because this is the
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summertime
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and summertime it becomes a bigger problem than at other times where
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children now have way more access to all of these technologies answer rather than
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being outside playing like you and i might've when we were young there inside
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on these video games or plugged in our emailing or banning and costly
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back-and-forth with their peers texting it's like a nonstop technology flood
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clearly health implications are talking about
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phones i've pads computers you name it what are some of the other implications
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for kids who just can't seem to step away from the screen whatever form their
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users one of the main areas i worry about jeff is a social development
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if they're in the house paid ten hours twelve hours a day on this video games
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playing these video games
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what's happening to their dinner skilled their interpersonal skills what's going
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on there these are the kinds of skills that they needed to be successful adults
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and they don't really learn them very much on his computer games win they tax
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when they face book they're relating to people in a way that we're not
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accustomed to
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perhaps it was a little older no more face-to-face contact anymore what does
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that do for socialization
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well unfortunately not a lot
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in some of these games do have some interactive value but for the most part
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it's a very intense experience for them in the interaction with their brains but
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not much in terms of with other people and that's really what i see as the main
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problem here for poor parents what are some signs that your kid maybe just a
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little too hard on this stuff
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well first of all the amount of time that they spent
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what happens when you ask them to get off the video game sometimes that can
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precipitate major meltdowns so these are the kinds of things that has to be very
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aware of the is their child lying about how much time to spend nearly sneaking
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onto the computer or they stealing money to buy computer games those are the
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kinds of things that ought to tell you wait a minute now maybe this is getting
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out of hand i try to tell parents no more than an hour or two a day
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especially in the summertime on these video games let them develop their other
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areas of their lives and not just their video games skills it sounds like it
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also creates a negative behaviors that are sort of
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that'd adjuncts of this it's sort of creates other behaviors that pairs them
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one thickest just better well yes and also it creates other problems that we
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don't necessarily see
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for example i believe that the video game craze has actually worsened the
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kids who have attentional issues i don't think it's any coincidence that children
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being diagnosed with a vhdl for example today this guy rocketing and i think a
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lot of it has to do with a stimulating environment has become especially with
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all of these technologies if kids are constantly being texting occassionally
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emailed costly playing these games
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their brains never really had a chance to disengage
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deeper thinkers to get more involved and things to think about there too costly
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being interrupted and their brains are costly telling them
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but reply and better check might sexy was common
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it's a constant nonstop so they don't really have a chance to think
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revert clearly are very deeply about the quality of the content of their lives
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but it's not all bad
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but
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something parents do need to watch out for it is and again is here to stay is
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not going to go away
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and children do need to become proficient the parents need to regulate
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all right very good doctor reynolds thanks for joining us this morning
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