Screens and children: a problem for intelligence?

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By: Céline Guillaume

Studies are increasing to point out the responsibility of screens in delays and learning difficulties in children. Specialists even recommend zero screen before the age of 3 or 6, depending on the point of view.

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The little ones who look at the screens in the morning are three times more likely to develop language disorders. How to return to a life without a "screen" in families? How to help children who are bottle fed on TVs, tablets and other screens?

With:
- Michel Desmurget , doctor of neurosciences at INSERM , author of La Fabrique du crétin digital (Éditions du Seuil)
- Jacques Brodeur , Quebecer, former professor of physical education in college. Creator of the 10-day no screen challenge in Quebec since 2003. This challenge now involves several schools in Quebec (nearly 10,000 children) and 260 in France (nearly 10,000 teens)
- Maryse Chrétien , teacher, national president of the General Association of Teachers of Public Kindergarten Schools and Classes (AGEEM).

And the winning Africa portrait by Raphaëlle Constant
- Godeliève Mukasarasi, founder of the NGO Sevota, she has been supporting women survivors of the genocide in Rwanda for 25 years, as well as the orphans and children born of these rapes.

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