UW News
Computing for Healthy Living and Learning Lab
May 18, 2015
Study: 44 percent of parents struggle to limit cell phone use at playgrounds
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A new University of Washington study finds that cell phone use at playgrounds is a significant source of parental guilt, and that caregivers absorbed in their phones were much less attentive to children’s requests.