Insights from Cris Rowan,
Child Development Expert
Insights from Cris Rowan,
Child Development Expert
Insights from
Cris Rowan,
Child Development Expert
Children are the future of our planet, yet the ways in which we are raising and educating children with technology are no longer sustainable. Sedentary, overstimulated, isolated and neglected, today’s child has an alarming increase in attachment and developmental disorders. We have unconsciously created a virtual reality that children now call “home”, a reality devoid of critical factors for growth and success: movement, touch, human connection and nature.
Now is the time to plant the seed for children to grow and learn in new and conscious ways. Moving Beyond the Screen requires team strategies which are research evidenced. Join Moving to Learn on this epic journey in creating sustainable futures for all children.
Recent Articles
Playgrounds – The epicentre for child development, behaviour and learning
I just returned from Anahim Lake, a small community in the Chilcotin area of British Columbia and home to the Ulkatcho First Nations people. I would like to take this opportunity to share with you a journey toward child health and wellness that took place over the course of the past four years and comprised a number of community initiatives.
The profound consequences of AI’s attack on critical thinking.
When I read that Mattel had formed a partnership with OpenAI, I felt a profound sense of dread. As if the technology industry wasn’t making enough money on exploiting children, now they are embedding AI design into toys for toddlers.
THE BRIEF – Creating Sustainable Futures
No one would dispute the statement that healthcare and education are in trouble. Since the infiltration of screen-based technologies into every home, school, community and workplace setting, indicators for health, wellbeing and performance have plummeted. The ways in which we are raising and educating children with screens are no longer sustainable.
Ethics 101 – Don’t experiment on children
Nelson Mandela’s quote “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children” gives me pause to wonder what he might say about our tech obsessed, screen addicted society today.
The Internet – We Can’t Make What’s Wrong, Right
If your child asked you if they could go to a place where they were going to learn how to harm themselves, for example learn how to cut, buy deadly drugs, be extorted sexually, meet pedophiles, choke themselves, suicide, bully others, kill people with guns and run over them with cars, give away their private data and in the process, become addicted to this place…would you let them go there? No!
Screen Overuse – Causal links to physical and mental illness inflate health care costs
Below letter was authored by pediatric occupational therapist Cris Rowan and emailed to all Canadian Health Ministers and British Columbia Health Authorities on July 28, ‘25.
Understanding proprioceptive and vestibular systems to optimize student attention and learning.
At this point in time, ALL screen use in homes and schools should be considered detrimental to child and youth development, behavior and learning.
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As a pediatric occupational therapist working in schools on the Sunshine Coast, I detected a rise in child developmental delays, mental health disorders and learning disabilities over 30 years ago.
Children with Addictions – Let’s pull our heads out of the sand and do something!
For the first time in the history of humankind, we have children with addictions. While children’s primary addiction is to screens (cell phones, tablets, TV, computers etc.
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Come journey beyond the screen to a life that sustains you.
Cris Rowan, BScOT, BScBi, SIPT
An outspoken critic on the impact of technology on human development, behavior, and productivity
Cris Rowan, biologist with 35 years experience as a pediatric occupational therapist is passionate about changing the ways in which humans use and interact with technology. Cris has developed a concept termed Balanced Technology Management (BTM) where humans strive to manage balance between healthy activity and technology.
She works globally and locally and has cross culture relevance from indigenous and developing communities. Cris is a visionary, who clearly sees that the ways in which humans are using technology are not sustainable, and the time to act is now. Activist, advocate, author, and prolific speaker, Cris helps people move from the virtual, back into the real world.