Too much smartphone not so smart for kids
You might not see them, hidden behind privacy curtains, but it’s nearly impossible to quiet children with raging red throats or gashed foreheads in need of stitches in the emergency department—except when a screen is soothing them. “Every kid has one,” my husband, an ER physician, recently marveled. “Either an I-pad or maybe a parent’s phone.” Toddlers who can scarcely talk are busily tapping, sliding, staring at devices designed for distraction. Here you can’t blame parents
