In the summer in France, a book by Michel Demurger, Doctor of Neuropsychology, "The Screen Idiots Factory", about the impact of new technologies on the development of children, was published.

In the summer in France, a book by Michel Demurger, Doctor of Neuropsychology, "The Screen Idiots Factory", about the impact of new technologies on the development of children, was published. And immediately became a bestseller. As the name suggests, the book was pretty scary.

It turns out that over the past 20 years, the IQ of young people has not ceased to fall, while over all the years of the twentieth century that have passed since the appearance of this concept, IQ has steadily increased.

Demurger listed the negative consequences of long-term use of screens by children:

1 lag in the development of speech in the smallest

2️⃣ motor problems

3️⃣ poor concentration,

4️⃣ sleep disturbance,

5 decreased creativity of thinking

6️⃣ memory impairment

7️⃣ various emotional disorders (depression, aggressiveness and tendency to addiction).

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“Of course, you need to live in step with the era, but our brain is not adapted to this, it was formed in the Neanderthal era. How it works: if you give me information directly, my brain responds, its neurons start working. If I receive information from the screen, then the neurons will not respond - or they will, but much less. If you tell a young child the name of a color, for example, "green," three times in a row, he will learn the word. If he hears the same word from the screen, then, according to various studies, the child needs twenty to sixty times to learn a new word for him.

In other words, our brain is designed in such a way that it needs to communicate with people. Evolution made him that way. It is vital for babies to communicate with living people. At a later age, this is also important. In real communication, the brain processes information differently than when it receives it from the screen. The development of the language takes place during the conversation. When all the screens in the house are turned off, the child hears about a thousand words per hour. And if the child is sitting in front of the screen, then you tell him about one hundred to one hundred and fifty words per hour. At the same time, it has been proven that cognitive development depends on the number of words 'received', especially at an early age. "