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The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and…

— Bill Cosby

“The busy lives people lead in the technologically driven culture that consumes our attention often produce a multitasking frenzy of activity that leaves people…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“High-reactive children pay what one psychologist calls “alert attention” to people and things. They literally use more eye movements than others to compare choices…

— Susan Cain

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

— Claire Tomalin

“Consider what a child misses during the 15, 000 hours (from birth to age seventeen) he spends in front of the TV screen. He…

— Paul Copperman

“Kids need quantity time: the myth that a small amount of focused attention is just as good simply because it's labeled quality is merely…

— Diane Medved

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense…

— Daniel Greenberg

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness or inconsistency…

— Abraham Maslow

There's nothing like young children's energy... They are always curious, and enthusiastic about many different things.

— Sharmila Tagore

“Parents of spirited children who are learning to manage their intensity well are talking about intensity and naming the emotions. They soothe the wailing…

— Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the audience response…

— Neil Cross

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get…

— Alison Gopnik