Anne-Marie Tomchak: Household chores will boost your child’s brain and foster a sense of work ethic for later in life

Even getting your child to help fill the dishwasher fosters a sense of teamwork. Photo: Getty/Stock image

Anne-Marie Tomchak

Whoever originally said “you can never have too much of a good thing” clearly wasn’t thinking about screen time for toddlers when they coined the phrase.

For years, I’ve been somewhat obsessive about the impact that consuming content on screens has on us. Now that I’m the parent of someone with a very young brain, I feel even more invested in trying to understand how our relationship with technology is influencing our behaviour and development.