The Baby Tribe: Is Your Phone Interrupting Your Toddler?
29 October - 18 mins explicitWe spend plenty of time worrying about children’s screen time. But what happens when the adults are the ones reaching for their phones?
Following our recent Family Tribe discussion about children and technology, Afif and Anne turn their attention to parents’ device use and the small attempts at communication we can miss while checking a message.
A new study from Calgary examined 107 parent-child pairs, with toddlers aged 13 to 18 months. It found that parental technology use during play was associated with more missed communication cues, alongside small associations with language scores. Crucially, it did not establish that phone use causes language delay.
We explore what these findings m...
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