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There's a cafe near my residence and each time I went in there I saw kids on ipads damaging their eyes on cognitive development.

The mention of how screens effect our empathy is a very important piece to the puzzle of a post I was thinking about writing. Thank you. People seem so much colder today that they make Mr Freeze look like a Care Bear.

The beats coming from that baby monitor were straight fire for the first few seconds. I could see someone using that in a rap song. But on a more serious note and from experience it's easy to see how gaming can make one more anxious.

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Thank you important information.

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Thanks for the mentions and inclusions. This is a profoundly important must read for parents and teachers everywhere... I will be cross-posting.

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Mar 5Liked by Roman S Shapoval

Another wonderful article BUT (only because I was ranting about it yesterday) let's start using wider and better terms than Like Big Tobacco, all advertising is propaganda, tobacco is the rules not the exception, our entire culture and the logic of capitalism is addiction based. Big oil and big tobacco use the same techniques as the local store claiming their pizza is better. Saying big tobacco makes a point but, in my opinion, misses the bigger point that we are trained in our business lives to disrupt the economy, to spin the truth, to be part of the problem AND when we say like big tobacco or any other nefarious corporate cluster that's lied, we are go unconscious, simply doing a bit of advertising on our version of the truth. 😸 This BTW, is an opinion, and in no way should distract from your marvelous fact based article

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Mar 4Liked by Roman S Shapoval

Wow I see you all have been busy.

I so look forward to reading this.

I struggle first hand with this issue as have two young men at home 14 and 16!

Thanks

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Mar 4Liked by Roman S Shapoval

I will, Roman.

I have a Polish friend who has proposed several educational programs to the EU for funding. These program are for children, mostly from Poland. I just sent your post to her. You might very well hear from her, because I know she is looking for other people to get on board.

Blessings from SEA.

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Mar 4Liked by Roman S Shapoval

Wow, Roman, what a thesis!

Thank you. I plan to reference this and send it on to several educators.

Blessings to You and your partner!

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Mar 4Liked by Roman S Shapoval

Screen-Heads never develop Intellectual, Social or Manual Skills in a (Virtual Reality) and diversity will create a (Standardization) of a Hive-Mind...Is the intended outcome and in the end...Will promotes Laziness, Stupidity and Deception !!!!

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Mar 27Liked by Roman S Shapoval

Children not using their fingers means they are delegating those responsibilities to an external system, which in turn means their internal pathways degrade -- or don't even develop. This is true about systems in general. In fact, it's the topic of my first post here on Substack, funnily enough.

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Just amazing... I plan to share this precious work on my substack. Thank you for your hard work and generosity in sharing this with us.

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