In games, which are the main motivation for the little ones to own a phone, the drive to score points and progress through game levels keeps the player's dopamine neurons firing. Released under the influence of a promise of reward, dopamine makes children more susceptible to the temptations of the screen. This is also the reason why they stand as if chained to it, and any parental intervention leads to nervous outbursts and even aggression on the part of the children, who seem to lose a real idea of ​​reality. Only then do parents begin to wonder whether this process is an incredible entertainment for their children, or a deliberate commercial manipulation of the creators of computer games. It depends on the point of view, doesn't it? But it is a fact that more and more parents in Bulgaria and around the world face this problem, usually when it is too late and their children fall into an unstoppable nervous crisis, similar to that of drug addicts. 

Already addicted to devices and games, "screen children" do not control their emotions, isolate themselves and communicate with their parents and peers with increasing difficulty. And in Bulgaria, this problem is becoming more and more tangible, because among society there are still notions that children become smarter by playing with smartphones from a young age. And if parents are under the influence of modern technology, their children also perceive this habit as completely normal. Therefore, the resistance to the removal of devices from schools in Bulgaria is unlikely to subside until an actual expert analysis of the benefits and harms of digital technologies is done.

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