Gabrielle Garon-Carrier

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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.

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