Computer kids: Does your child need a digital detox?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/10010478/Computer-kids-Does-your-child-need-a-digital-detox.html 

As ridiculous as the idea of a child needing a digital detox may sound, it is a fact that many children now a days are addicted to their digital screens and have developed physical and psychological problems as a result of their addiction.In England parents are spending up to 16,000 lbs. for a 28 day digital detox program for their child. Computers and other digital toys and machine have taken over the baby-sitting rol of the t.v. Parents who have been conscientious about not letting their children vegetate for hours in front of the television seem to have succumbed to the digital trap.Psychologists warn about the consequences of over indulgence in digital gadgets, such as a sedentary life style, higher blood pressure as a result of being online, increase in the production of dopamine which is connected to the development of addictive behavior, while neuroscientist are studying the impact that the modern digital world is having on children’s brains.

Opinion:

It’s interesting that people may be surprised by digital addiction in children, since it is the adults who have created this digital world in which their children now traffic. I think that there is little hope for digital sanity in our youth when the adult population has been the first to succumb to this addiction. Putting a child on a digital detox is a symptomatic approach to a deeper problem, which will not be solved by merely putting the child on a temporary digital diet. To approach digital addiction in a constructive way we need a change in world consciousness and not merely the blind leading the blind.