From: CNN
Sandra Bond Chapman, author of the book “Make Your Brain Smarter” and founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas, said parents who are concerned about their kids’ dependence on digital devices should first embrace the technology and not punish them with it.
Second, she suggests challenging children to do “interval training” where they spend 30 minutes doing homework without any form of disruption from technology — and during the next 30 minutes of homework, they are allowed to check their phones or other devices. (You could also try 15 minutes if you can’t quite get your kid away from the phone for 30!)
When she does this experiment with teens, she said they are “blown away” by how much better they do when they are not distracted by technology. “What they see is they are able to complete their homework almost in a quarter of the time it takes them,” Chapman said. “They see that they learn better the next day when they’re doing tests or trying to remember it.”
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