Provincial cellphone bans being implemented across Canada this week are not enough, according to Lynn Posluns, chief executive of Women’s Brain Health Initiative, who believes students and families need “more urgent, comprehensive education and awareness measures for children and families to address escalating mobile device addiction.”
“Nobody should be under any illusion that these measures alone will address the national children’s brain health crisis that is mobile device addiction,” stated Posluns. “Until we fully educate students about the harms of excessive cellphone use and provide them and their parents with tools to sustain awareness at home, children will continue to overuse technology which we know is causing sleep deprivation and long-term negative effects on their brains.”
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