The basic stage of a child's speech development usually begins at 8-12 months of age, but before the stuttering stage, the child goes through the grunting stage. An attentive mother notices during the first forty days how many times the child makes different sounds during the day. If the child successfully passes the grunt stage, has a passive vocabulary (knows the basic concepts of the world around them), the emotional and mental spheres develop in accordance with the specific age stage, but the passive vocabulary does not change into an active one, then there is a very negative factor - the telephone.

There are countless cases where, at the stage of rapid speech development, it turns out that from an early age the child was fed, spent most of the day in the company of the phone. As a result, before fully understanding the sounds of the native language, the child is simultaneously watching cartoons in Russian and English. If you add to this the factor of an uncooperative family, you can clearly imagine the chaos in the child's head. Phone addiction has a more negative effect. The child disconnects from reality, creating a virtual reality for himself, talking and moving in the style of cartoon characters and games he watches all day.

In parallel, as the child grows older, the problem worsens if you don't limit phone addiction during the day.

The alternative is one. Take drastic steps, tear your child away from smartphones and TV for a long time, increase his physical and cognitive load, communication with the outside world and nature.

Talk, tell, describe to your children the world they live in. Do not replace live communication with an artificial, cold, faceless phone!!!

Sincerely, Lusine Musaelyan, behavioral specialist, Kana Psychological Center.

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