Sounds like she’s just desperate or potentially trying to get arrested for the winter months. Winter in NY can be brutal and a prison = free room and 3 hot meals a day.

There’s a massive difference between the games that stimulate reflex coordination and response times. 90% of the games we throw on iPads do NOT do this. Furthermore, we need to keep in mind that over saturation of any sort of stimulation is going to have adverse side effects. One of the most prevalent side effects in these “ipad kids,” as you call them, is a high dependency on the device to supply their dopamine, which causes a form of addiction to the device.

So, at the end of the day, what kids need is proper parenting alongside all these new reports. But most people have kids for the image and not the experience, so they resort to lazy ways to find the topography of behavior they wish to see, with zero foresight for the damage it causes. Oh, billy is throwing a tantrum at the restaurant? Stick a screen in his face instead of helping him work through his human emotions. I.E. bottle it up and save the problem for another day. But what happens when it’s too late?