Overview
- IPN clinical psychologist María del Pilar Cortés Ramírez says overstimulation from phones and tablets in the under‑fives is linked to attention and concentration problems, language delay and low frustration tolerance.
- She warns instant digital rewards can remodel developing brains toward impulsivity, while displacing hands‑on exploration, sensory play and early social bonding.
- The IPN advice is to keep young children off mobile devices in early childhood and to introduce technology after age five only as a supervised, time‑limited learning aid.
- WHO recommendations cited across the coverage call for no screens before age two and at most one hour daily from two to five with age‑appropriate content and adult co‑viewing.
- Media commentary also reflects household reliance on screens as a “digital pacifier,” and includes a psychologist’s contested claims about addiction and cognitive harm presented as her opinion.