“Maia’s mom was not kidding when she said that Maia is GLUED to her phone. She’s on it all the time, and now I can’t even get her to go to sleep. Her mom is worried that she is addicted to her phone and wonders about the effect it’s having on her. At first I thought she was overreacting, but now I dunno…. Aren’t you taking some kind of child development class?? What should I do? What should I tell her mom to do? Is all that time on her phone bad for Maia or could she be actually be getting something good out of it?
Your assignment is to create a blog post to address the smartphones and social media usage in children. In your post, address the costs and benefits of smart phone/social media usage by kids, and also provide some advice and guidelines to parents (like Maia’s mom) and caregivers (like Esther) on smartphone/social media usage.
Use the text : Parke, Roisman & Rose. (2019). Social Development (3rd Ed). Wiley. (section on Smartphones and Social Media, Chapter 9, pp. 375-380) as a starting point for your blog post. In addition this text section, you will need to find 2 or 3 additional scientific articles (BUT NOT MORE) that are relevant to your topic to use in creating your post.
