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Toddlers and TikTok: social media’s impact on child development
Australian Community Media
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9/15/2024
Psychology Professor Rachel Hogg believes young children are becoming addicted to dopamine from excessive screen time. Video by Emily Anderson.
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Between 0 to 5, we as humans develop more rapidly than at any other time in our lives.
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Every word, toy or conversation we encounter sets us up for a life in a world filled with
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people and distraction.
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But experts who work with Australia's youngest population have concerns social media and
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screen time could be causing kids to miss out, big time.
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You are losing contact with a lot of opportunities to engage in other things, especially play,
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which is often an undervalued part of children's lives.
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In Australia, kids between 2 and 5 are recommended no more than one hour of screen time per day.
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Less than one in five are meeting that guideline.
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They're tending to use what they see their parents using.
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So they might be going onto their parents' phone and playing around with different apps.
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It's amazing how literate they are.
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I look at kids sometimes now playing with phones and they know exactly how to get into
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things.
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So that's one part of this.
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Snapchat is featured a lot.
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There's a lot of filters and a lot of things that make that very appealing to very young
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children.
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When they withdraw from screens and social media, experts have found young children are
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struggling to regulate their own emotions.
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I think we see children increasingly receiving high levels of dopamine from their engagement
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with social media and just technology generally.
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And then they don't really have the skills or the neurological awareness to be able to
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manage and regulate themselves around that.
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