Support screen free restaurants and demand that screens be turned off during meal time with family or friends. I am starting a movement in an attempt to end the use of screens at the table (specifically the use of iPads and smartphones at restaurants). I am hoping to create an awareness of the negative impact screens are having on the lives of young children. Young minds are being ruined and it ne
eds to stop. Look around at any restaurant these days and most certainly you'll see people "screened up." THIS IS NOT OK. Take a look at the research. There is no benefit to putting kids on screens while having a meal. Doing this to babies should be criminal. You should talking to your kids, engaging them in conversations, helping build those neural connections that would be naturally occurring with human to human communication. When you put a screen in a child's hands, you are literally shutting them down and stunting their brain development. While the objective is peace and quiet, or calm behavior while dining at a restaurant, you are inadvertently harming the developing brain. This is at a critical time when brain development is so crucial. Please read some of the research and then join my movement.
