Reporting Charles Feldman By Charles Feldman, KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO
Investigative Reporter MANHATTAN BEACH (CBS) — David Crook of
Manhattan Beach noticed something disturbing about a year ago
when his son, Nathan, was only three. Nathan’s attachment to the
family’s iPad was a bit more intense than his father preferred.
“We went through a period when he was using it a lot. I felt
like he was getting a little addicted to it,” Crook says. Crook
is not alone. Just 29 months after Steve Jobs introduced the
world to the iPad — the first truly successful tablet computer —
many parents are finding their toddlers, in their words,
“addicted” to the device in a way that differs from other
playthings or even the ubiquitous television set. And the lack
of long term studies on the impact of this new technology on
child development has many leading experts concerned. “As a
society, we are conducting a gigantic experiment on our kids,”
says Daniel Anderson, professor emeritus of psychology at the
University of Massachusetts, Am