Prohibiting screens for children before the age of 6? Even if it "seems unrealistic", "there are protective factors," says psychiatrist Serge Tisseron

TRIBUNE. Some health professionals recommend banning screens for children under 6 years of age. The psychiatrist suggests some precautions and recalls that "screens are only the most visible tip of a gigantic iceberg, that of connected objects".

Alexandre Lazarègue, a lawyer specializing in digital law, bounced back on the words of former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and the child psychiatrist Marcel Rufo, who would like to see access to social networks banned before 15 years. According to him, this would be a salutary measure.

No smartphone under 14 and social media only from 16. A group of parents, supported by leading scientists, demands that the government work on stricter rules. “Parents can’t do this alone.”

“Incomprehensible.” That is what wouter duyck (ugent) thought when he read this morning that seventeen belgian experts overcame the government to make social media boring for young people under sixteen. The professor of cognitive psychology is very sharp for the experts in the Open Letter. He calls them harmful panic mongers. In an interview, Duyck counterattacks. “Sowing fear about social media is a model of earnings.” ttn-39

A group of Belgian experts and psychiatrists has sent an open letter to the Flemish and federal governments, calling for a clearer and stricter policy on the use of smartphones among children and adolescents. They are also in favor of banning the use of social networks until the age of 16, reports the Belga agency.