Good news, parents! There is some truth to the mantra of putting down the tablet and going to play outside!
A new study per StudyFinds has found that toddlers who spend less than an hour in front of screens actually go on to develop better brains!
According to scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the study also shows that children around two years old who spent less than an hour a day on electronics and exercised daily showed better cognitive skills than those who did not.
Naiman Khan, a kinesiology and community health professor at the university and study author said in a statement, "Executive function underlies your ability to engage in goal-directed behaviors.
"It includes abilities such as inhibitory control, which allows you to regulate your thoughts, emotions and behavior; working memory, by which you are able to hold information in mind long enough to accomplish a task; and cognitive flexibility, the adeptness with which you switch your attention between tasks or competing demands."
Toddlers who had some daily physical activity also did better on tests involving working memory than those who did not.
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