Caroline Fitzpatrick

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  • Canada Research Chair in Digital Media Use by Children and Its Implications for Promoting Togetherness: An Ecosystemic Approach, Université de Sherbrooke
Tablets and mobile devices can be highly engaging for young children. However, they offer few opportunities for children to develop important emotion regulation skills, including the ability to manage strong emotions like anger and frustration. (Shutterstock)

Tablet use by young children is linked with more outbursts of anger and frustration

Caroline Fitzpatrick, Université de Sherbrooke ; Fabricio De Andrade Rocha, Université de Sherbrooke , and Gabrielle Garon-Carrier, Université de Sherbrooke

Using screen media as a calming tool to help manage young children’s emotional outbursts may be an effective short-term solution, but is likely to backfire in the long run.
Elementary schools provide excellent targets for interventions to prevent obesity as children spend much of their day and consume many of their calories at school. (Shutterstock)

Is your child’s school an obesity risk?

Caroline Fitzpatrick, Université Sainte-Anne

Research shows that children attending schools with low-quality food environments, in poorer neighborhoods, gain more central body fat – putting them at risk of obesity and cardiometabolic disease.

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