Ideas: Media Multi-tasking
Aired March 30, 2006 on WVIZ/PBS
Surfing the internet. Watching TV. Listening to music. Playing a videogame. Talking on the phone. These are things kids do - and often all at the same time. Experts are calling this phenomena "media multi-tasking." Are your raising a house full of wired children? If so, take heart, you are not alone. But, should you be worried? Will all this multi-tasking impact your child's normal brain development? Will it make your child more apt to suffer from attention deficient? On ideas, Elaine Falk talked to Vanessa Jensen, Psy.D from the Cleveland Clinic, and Dr. Max Wiznitzer from Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital about this phenomena and what parents can and should do to manage media multi-tasking.
