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A young mother sits with her toddler playing on the floor, focusing on her phone.

A Parent’s Smartphone Time May Be Linked to Slower Vocabulary Growth in Children

A Norwegian study of 747 children found that greater primary-parent smartphone use was associated with slower growth in receptive vocabulary from ages 5 to 7. Most other measures of child and parent screen use were not consistently linked to language growth.

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