#Children and young #people growing up in households where family meals have been colonised by #screens (television, #tablets and the ubiquitous #mobile_phone) show a clear deficit in #communication and conversation #skills. They struggle to interpret non-verbal cues, activate fewer mirror neurons (the cerebral basis of empathy), and fear exposing themselves to real, “unedited” conversation.
> We urgently need to teach young people ‘conversational literacy’.




