The App Gap and the Shut-Up Toy

Today, there was a great article in the NY Times that pointed to not only high levels of screen time but highter pediatric use of "Apps" in higher income households. There is no evidence that these Apps are educational in the face of growing body of evidence that screen time is harmful

My two guesses as to why there are differrent media profiles for differrent income households are:

1. Price of mobile devices/tablets which eventually go down over time.

2. Growing anxiety among more affluent parents that their child will be left behind in an increasingly interconnected and digitally sophisticated world.

I would be interested in your thoughts.

Daniel Weissbluth

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