Does Your Child or Do You Have Electronic Screen Syndrome?
Consider the following questions:
Does your child seem revved up a lot of the time?
Does your child have meltdowns over minor frustrations?
Does your child have full-blown rages?
Has your child become increasingly oppositional, defiant, or disorganized?
Does your child become irritable when told it’s time to stop playing video games or to get off the computer?
Do you ever notice your child’s pupils are dilated after using electronics?
Does your child have a hard time making eye contact after screen-time or in general?
Would you describe your child as being attracted to screens “like a moth to a flame”?
Do you ever feel your child is not as happy as he or she should be, or that your child is not enjoying activities like he or she used to?
Does your child have trouble making or keeping friends because of immature behaviour?
Do you worry your child’s interests have narrowed recently, or that these interests mostly revolve around screens? Do you feel his or her thirst for knowledge and natural curiosity has been dampened?
Are your child’s grades falling, or is he or she not performing academically up to his or her potential – and no one is certain why?
Have teachers, pediatricians or therapists suggested your child might have bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, an anxiety disorder, and there’s no family history of the disorder?
Have multiple practitioners given you child differing or conflicting diagnoses? Have you been told your child needs medication but this doesn’t feel right to you?
Does your child have a pre-existing condition, like autism or ADHD whose symptoms seem to be getting worse?
Does your child seem “wired and tired”, like they’re exhausted but can’t sleep, or they sleep but don’t feel rested?
Does your child seem lazy or unmotivated and have poor attention to detail?
Would you describe your child as being stressed, despite few or no stressors you can clearly point to?
Is your child receiving services in school that don’t seem to be helping?
Please see the source: Dunckley, Victoria MD. Reset Your Child’s Brain. New World Library, California August 2015.
