infantilising

Constant ID checks in supermarkets and off-licences are "infantilising" young adults and confusing shoppers about legal age limits, a report by a civil liberties group claims today.

Alcohol ID checks 'infantilising' young adults, says survey 2010

Enter Dr Aric Sigman (BBC News: Online networking harms health) who believes that "websites such as Facebook set out to enrich social lives, but end up keeping people apart" and Baroness Susan Greenfield who claims that "social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity" (Guardian: Facebook and Bebo risk 'infantilising' the human mind).

Dyslogic, the official sport of the 21st century 2009

Enter Dr Aric Sigman (BBC News: Online networking harms health) who believes that "websites such as Facebook set out to enrich social lives, but end up keeping people apart" and Baroness Susan Greenfield who claims that "social network sites risk infantilising the mid-21st century mind, leaving it characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity" (Guardian: Facebook and Bebo risk 'infantilising' the human mind).

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Baroness Greenfield, a neuroscientist and the director of the Royal Institution, said sites like Facebook, Twitter and Bebo risked "infantilising" the minds of users, creating a generation of children who demand instant gratification.

Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph 2009

There's a fine line between innocent and infantilising, and Morton doesn't always stay on the right side of it.

Thrillers – review John O'Connell 2010

The interesting thing is he doesn't cross out quite sensitive political or court gossip, or the bawdier passages – it's just the baby talk, which is both infantilising and quite sexualised.

Three-year-old helps translate Jonathan Swift's letters to his poo poo ppt 2011

M. John Harrison and Michael Moorcock have been fairly outspoken in attacking the use of wonder in traditional fantasy, seeing in Tolkien and his imitators the same infantilising and nostalgic escapism that Bukiet sees in BBoWs.

Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

But it's hard to warm to a show that, for all its would-be scholasticism, embodies the progressive infantilising of the American musical.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - review 2011

The infantilising effect of celebrity culture didn't stop Mr Mifsud doing his job properly.

Who's the sycophant in the black? | Harry Pearson 2011

It is ridiculous, infantilising, that women must play the "it'll drive me to despair" card in order to obtain a sensible intervention.

Abortion is not a mental health issue | Deborah Orr 2011