Ideal culprit, the iPhone is exonerated by a study

This is a widely held thought, if an adult has their eyes onson iPhoneor on another screen, this generates bad relationships with your child. But are the devices really responsible for this deterioration? This is what Nevena Dimitrova, researcher at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, and her team wanted to know in a study published in the journalFrontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Concentrate better

And in fact, their conclusions challenge many preconceived ideas on the subject. In fact, they believe that“When parents are distracted, the quality and quantity of parent-child interaction is impaired compared to parents who are not distracted…whether that distraction comes from digital or non-digital activity.”

Concretely, for the parent to be distracted bya digital device, a book, or any activity changes nothing. The child just wants the latter to be fully attentive in his exchange with him. He will therefore show frustration otherwise, and this therefore has nothing to do with using a screen.

This study will need to be supplemented by other research in order to validate or refute these results. This is not the first time that scientists have reached this type of conclusion.

Interviewed last year byle New York Times, David J. Lewkowicz, developmental psychologist at the Yale Child Study Center,recommended:“Talk to your child as much as you can, face to face”. He also believed that it is impossible to ask parents to completely keep their children away from screens. It is indeed true that the problem can sometimes arise in the opposite direction.