Children who spend much time communicating on the Internet likely become less skilled in real-life interaction that involves levels of communication missing in computer messages.

Most students in medical education would never have such real-life interaction with a child in the throes of a severe respiratory attack.

Once the real-life interaction has taken place, she may reflect on the interaction, analyzing it to determine what worked and what did not.

On the other hand, their real-life interactions all play out in a bell jar.

But some educators caution that schools need to consider what may be lost when real-life interaction is replaced by a virtual connection.

A half-hour of peace after 12 hours of real-life interactions with the kids is worth more to most moms than any academic study about TV can offer.

Do the psychology and neurosis of everyday real-life human interactions need to follow us into cyberspace, or is there a way to leave them behind?

Child-development experts say the deficit confirms the age-old wisdom that real-life interactions are best for babies.

Although researchers increasingly try to observe real-life interactions, the security of infant-mother attachment is usually measured in "strange situation" experiments.

Perhaps children who spend time reading books will become less skilled in real-life interactions as well.