【英語文章】給孩子一部智能手機如同“毒品”

Giving your child a smartphone is like "giving them a gram of cocaine", a top addiction therapist has warned.
 
Time spent messaging friends on Snapchat and Instagram can be just as dangerously addictive for teenagers as drugs and alcohol, and should be treated as such, school leaders and teachers were told at an education conference in London.
 
Speaking alongside experts in technology addiction and adolescent development, Harley Street rehab clinic specialist Mandy Saligari said screen time was too often overlooked as a potential vehicle for addiction in young people.
 
"I always say to people, when you're giving your kid a tablet or a phone, you're really giving them a bottle of wine or a gram of coke," she said.
 
"Why do we pay so much less attention to those things than we do to drugs and alcohol when they work on the same brain impulses?"
 
Ofcom figures suggest more than four in ten parents of 12-15 year-olds find it hard to control their children's screen time.
 
Even three and four year olds consume an average of six and half hours of internet time per week, according to the broadcasting regulators.


譯文：
一位頂級成癮治療師警告稱，為您的孩子提供智能手機就像“給他們一克可卡因”。
 
一位頂級的成癮治療師警告說，給孩子一部智能手機就好像“給他們一克可卡因”。
 
在Snapchat和Instagram上消息傳遞朋友的時間對于青少年來說就像毒品和酒精一樣危險上癮，應該這樣對待，學校領導和老師在倫敦的教育會議上被告知。
 
Harley Street康復診所專家Mandy Saligari與技術成癮和青少年發(fā)展方面的專家一起說，屏幕時間經常被忽視，成為年輕人成癮的潛在載體。
 
“我總是對人們說，當你給孩子一個平板電腦或手機時，你真的給他們一瓶葡萄酒或一克可樂，”她說。
 
“當我們對同樣的大腦沖動進行研究時，為什么我們對這些事情的關注要少于對毒品和酒精的關注？”
 
Ofcom的數(shù)據表明，超過四分之一的12-15歲的父母發(fā)現(xiàn)很難控制孩子的屏幕時間。
 

據廣播監(jiān)管機構稱，即使是三四歲的孩子每周平均需要花費六個半小時的互聯(lián)網時間。

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