iPads are increasingly used as electronic babysitters for toddlers, resulting in later problems with compulsive behaviour
A pre-school child is receiving psychiatric treatment for compulsive behaviour because she is obsessed with playing games on her iPad, using it for up to four hours every day.
Her concerned parents sent the girl for therapy at the Capio Nightingale Clinic in London because she became “inconsolable” when the tablet computer was taken away from her.
Her psychiatrist Dr Richard Graham said: “The child’s mother called me and described her symptoms.
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