Well-known pediatrician Lira Gjika is always close to Albanian parents with her valuable advice. Recently she spoke about a very widespread phenomenon in recent years, the use of the telephone by minor children.
It has become fashionable for parents to offer electronic devices to their children to calm them down or persuade them to eat, without knowing what harm they are causing them.
"Parents, try not to use your cell phone, TV or computer for children up to the age of two, either to feed them or to watch fairy tales and games on it. But even after the age of two care is needed. Using electronic tools up to this age only does harm. The use of electronic devices provokes what scientists call "virtual autism". The child begins to learn words and speech no longer from people, ie mother, father and other relatives, but from the thing.
Speech and speech are social "products", they are learned and developed through one-on-one communication. When adults break this rule and leave the child alone with things, he has no other way, he remains alone in the virtual world of the talking thing. In these fragile ages, he does not develop speech and language as a human-to-human relationship. Constantly staying with the electronic means, hinders in the child the development of all the structures that realize the process of speech. Speech is the most powerful experience and experiment that makes man human. Be careful parents, you are inadvertently crippling your children in speech ", writes Gjika.