Parenting: Kids addicted to tech
Overusing technology can affect children of all ages. How do you manage your child's use of smartphones?
Investors have called on Apple to develop software that limits how long children can use its smartphones. Overusing technology can affect children of all ages. Babies are handed devices to keep them quiet in a queue at a shop, toddlers see a magazine as a tablet that doesn鈥檛 work when they try to swipe the pages, teenagers conduct entire relationships on Snapchat. How much can we call a child鈥檚 love of technology an addiction? How much are parents to blame for this?
Presenter Jenni Murray
Producer Rebecca Myatt
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