{"id":596,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/digital-devices-to-calm-tantrums-make-a-childs-behaviour-worse\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:56","slug":"digital-devices-to-calm-tantrums-make-a-childs-behaviour-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/digital-devices-to-calm-tantrums-make-a-childs-behaviour-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital devices to calm tantrums make a child&#039;s behaviour worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-07-01 13:20:08<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Giving children technological devices to calm them down during a tantrum doesn&#8217;t improve their behaviour.<BR><br \/>\nA &#8216;digital dummy&#8217; is a common tactic used by parents to pacify their offspring but experts have warned that it can prevent youngsters from learning how to manage their emotions and other &#8220;severe emotion regulation problems&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\n265 under-fives were monitored in a study and those who were calmed with digital devices such as iPads had worse emotional control a year on.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Veronika Konok, author of the study at  Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary, said: &#8220;Tantrums cannot be cured by digital devices.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Children have to learn how to manage their negative emotions for themselves.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We show that if a parent regularly offers a digital device to their child to calm them or stop a tantrum, the child won&#8217;t learn.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This leads to more severe emotion regulation problems, specifically anger management problems, later in life.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;They need the help of their parents during this learning process, not the help of a digital device.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-07-01 13:20:08 Giving children technological devices to calm them down during a tantrum doesn&#8217;t improve their behaviour. A &#8216;digital dummy&#8217; is a common tactic used by parents to pacify their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}