M.S.: It's an accessibility issue.
Rob: You think this is going to be something, let's go back to the iBabies, who are at the most 6 to 8 years old now, and you know I have friends who are grandparents and they tell me about their three-year-old grandchildren who already can download apps. Where do you think this is going to go in terms of healthy relationships with iBabies.
M.S.: I think it's a major issue but let me just go back, the ability to download an app, that's a technological ability. I don't want that to confound that with a child that has a behavioral issue meaning tantrums if they don't have a phone in their hand, so first they have to separate that. But again if we look at insecure attachment or disorganized attachment so some kind of a primary attachment issue or potential for that, the inability to read facial cues and body posturing; so autistic like features, less eye contact, not learning true physical boundaries, again kids don't learn what hurts and doesn't hurt by playing some of these games on iTech, they don't learn what hurts their own bodies. Again, those types of boundaries, we just kind of go on and on and project not using iDevices to bridge natural phases of awkwardness in adolescence so essentially learning to be very brazen on iDevices but not being able to communicate face-to-face.
Rob: Wait let me get into that, that's something you really haven't talked about before. Using iDevices to bridge phases of awkwardness.
M.S.: I think I already mentioned that in terms of adolescence wherein adolescence will use digital interface to talk to each other instead of communicating, and they will be sitting in the same room but things that they cannot say and for those of us older we wouldn't dare say, they will say by texting.
Rob: So they can't talk face-to-face but they can use texting or whatever.
M.S.: Yes. Now again we have to be careful about the total emphatics of can't but yes.
Rob: They're inclined, they're more likely to do it that way.
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