Children who spend a lot of time on digital devices, especially mobile phones, face higher risks of developing cognitive disorders later in life.
This warning from medical experts might exert more pressure on the often shaky relationship between parenting and technology.
Even more worrying is that coronavirus pandemic has provided children with spates of involuntary holidays in which most spent consuming hundreds of combined hours on mobile phones, tablets, television and laptops.
This is even trickier considering most parents, teachers and children now increasingly have to rely on mediated learning through digital classrooms increasing prolonged exposure to screen time.
Dr Michael Mbiriri, a child psychotherapist, now warn that the end result might be “premature thinning of the cortex, the outer layer of the brain, leading to low IQ scores.”