Your smartphone obsession may up bad behaviour in kids

New York: Do you spend too much time on your smartphone during mealtime, playtime and routine activities or conversations with your kids? If so, it may lead to behavioural issues in your children, warned researchers.A new study suggests that even low or seemingly normal amounts of technology-related interruption were associated with greater child behaviour problems, such as over-sensitivity, hot temper, hyperactivity an When parents use mobile technology, their responsiveness to their kids changes and the device use causes less-than-ideal interactions with their children.

"It's really difficult to toggle attention between all of the important and attention-grabbing information contained in these devices, with social and emotional information from our children, and process them both effectively at the same time," added Jenny Radesky, child behaviour expert and paediatrician at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.