Your baby will take longer to talk if he plays with a cell phone

Your baby will take longer to talk if he plays with a cell phone

When technology arrived, progress was applauded, but they never imagined that it would be the same that could affect your baby, it will take longer to speak if he plays for a long time with a cell phone

Society advances and with it technology, information is in a click, there are many benefits, but if care is not taken and babies are given, like a cell phone to entertain themselves, something that seems harmless can become be decisive.

Experts say that when a child plays for too long with the cell phone, it can damage it and it will take longer to speak. Parents do not pay attention to the delay it causes them, and if they do not realize it in time it may be too late.

The comfort of some parents is to give him a tablet, a cell phone so that he can play and not disturb him, it is a way to distract him, but they are also unconsciously delaying him, currently it has been discovered that this type of digital distraction does not develop his speech under the pattern of normal.

Your baby will take longer to talk if he plays with a cell phone. Photo: Pexels

A study carried out by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada found that the more time a child under 18 months spends in front of the screen of a device, the more they may have speech delays, they will not be able to develop complete and coherent sentences .

To determine these conclusions, 893 children were studied over a period of more than four years. It was discovered that 20% of the children were in contact with a screen of a mobile device, for approximately 28 minutes a day.

And that children under two years of age who are in front of a digital device for more than 30 minutes have 50% of them having problems speaking, (there is a speech delay), This information is supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics ( AAP).

It is because of these scientific determinations that the AAP asks parents to have greater control with these devices and to avoid at all costs that children under 2 years of age have contact with screens, tablets or cell phones.

Many parents find in the cell phone a toy for their children to be distracted, play and do not realize the great damage they are doing to them, these children do not have the same capacity as other children who are not exposed to cell phones, the The big difference is that they have a more fluent language than those who are on cell phones for a long time.