"Aahir creates things with his building blocks and magnetic tiles while Naysa reads books and newspapers. "Technology is a poor substitute for personal interaction," says Natali Asrani, whose husband is a mobile phone application developer. She believes her screen-free policy has helped them inculcate long-term habits and personality traits they wouldn't have otherwise. "One of the biggest things they have developed is observation, because they aren't looking at screens, they're looking at things around them. If a parent is accustomed to having a mobile phone at the dinner table, kids are likely to emulate it."

Source: Times of India November 04, 2017 19:43 UTC