Children are losing out on neurological and intellectual development because they spend too much time on computers.
A charitable educational trust has released a report stating that children these days are losing out on neurological and intellectual development because they spend too much time on computers rather than work with their own hands, something that can teach them important life skills.
The Ruskin Mill Educational Trust's report suggests that hands-on work and play allows children to gain an understanding of materials, and experience how the world works in practice.
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"(Outside school) The use of young hands has been reduced to the pressing of buttons or the clicking of a mouse," the Telegraph quoted the report's author Dr. Aric Sigman as saying.
"But there are sound neurological and cognitive reasons why all children should be experiencing a more 'hands-on' element to their daily lives," he added.
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This is also impacting the British economy, with a decline in engineering skills at the very time they are needed by the business world, says the report.
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"Using their hands simply makes children more intelligent," he said.
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He says that during childhood and teenage years, in particular, it stimulates a number of areas of the brain involved in other functions, which play a part in learning and cognitive development.
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