A woman uses her mobile phone outside a branch of UK retailer Phones 4U advertising the new Blackberry Z10 in central London, January 31, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Winning
Parents who turn to smartphones and tablets to break up the tedium of caring for an infant around the clock may be teaching their babies to have a short attention span, a small study suggests.
That’s because when parents stop focusing on playtime with their baby to concentrate on other things like tiny screens, their infants may mimic this behaviour by also focusing on toys and other objects for shorter periods of time.
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