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2 news posts in Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Kids given ‘digital pacifiers’ to calm tantrums fail to learn how to regulate emotions, study finds

Researchers found that when children are given digital devices to calm their tantrums, they don’t learn how to regulate their emotions, which could lead to severe problems later in life

Social science

21 May 2024

Screen time not the main factor making parent-child interactions worse, study finds

Researchers investigated if ‘technoference’ has worse effects on parent-child interactions than non-digital distractions and found that distraction itself – not its source – may be to blame