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In Seine-Saint-Denis, the Bondy hospital is the first to offer a consultation for very young children addicted to screens, who are not recommended before the age of three.
Doctors’ recommendation is clear: children should not be in front of screens before the age of three. But the reality is very different. At two years old, children spend 56 minutes a day in front of screens, and 1h20 at three and a half years old. An average that hides much more worrying cases. The Bondy hospital (Seine-Saint-Denis) is the first to offer a consultation for very young screen addicts.
The screen acts as a digital nanny
During the first meeting last year, Youssouf was four years old, did not speak and spent six to seven hours a day in front of the television. The little boy was no longer sleeping. He was even hospitalized, victim of visual and auditory hallucinations. Today, Youssouf has caught up on his developmental delay. The pediatrician sees a majority of little boys, many close pregnancies, cases where the screen serves as a digital nanny.