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CNN Sanjay Gupta MD August 10, 2013 20:54:00

you know, put two blocks in your daughter's hands and let her figure out how to stack them on top of each other and kids really need that unstructured play time to stimulate problem solving skills and creativity and they also need social interaction and talking to mom and dad and watching mom and dad is tremendously powerful. >> you know, it's interesting because my youngest right now has this game where she -- on her ipad where she matches all the states and then she has a puzzle as well where she actually puts the states into the right position on the map, it's interesting, i thought the ipad app did a lot of that but the actual tactile putting the blocks together may make a bigger difference. you know, let me ask you this, because a lot of parents out there, myself included, the science isn't there yet, so what do you tell the parents, you know, the parents of your patients when they ask should i let my kids play with these apps now, what is the right answer? >> the take-home message for parents is this -- everything in moderation. so if you are going to let your child spend some time doing interactive app, make sure they're not spending too much time in front of a screen and

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