{"id":170468,"date":"2023-08-25T03:24:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/kids-who-are-always-on-ipads-missing-developmental-goals-scientists-find"},"modified":"2023-08-25T03:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T08:24:15","slug":"kids-who-are-always-on-ipads-missing-developmental-goals-scientists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/kids-who-are-always-on-ipads-missing-developmental-goals-scientists-find","title":{"rendered":"Kids Who Are Always on iPads Missing Developmental Goals, Scientists Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kids-who-are-always-on-ipads-missing-developmental-goals-scientists-find3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parents who limit their kids\u2019 screen time, it seems, may be doing them a service: a new study has found that babies who spend a lot of time looking at iPads and other screens experience developmental delays.<\/p>\n<p>Published this week in the <em><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/fullarticle\/2808593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-uri=\"df11a05b2bd7ee63b93572566d782361\">Journal of the American Medical Association of Pediatrics<\/a><\/em>, this new research out of Japan suggests that watching screens may limit infants\u2019 practicing of real-life motor skills that they glean from mimicking the people near them.<\/p>\n<p>In a questionnaire, the parents of the more than 7,000 kids surveyed were asked a simple question: \u201cOn a typical day, how many hours do you allow your children to watch TV, DVDs, video games, internet games (including mobile phones and tablets), etc?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents who limit their kids\u2019 screen time, it seems, may be doing them a service: a new study has found that babies who spend a lot of time looking at iPads and other screens experience developmental delays. Published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association of Pediatrics, this new research out of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}