Original sentence: )  Some parents also express concern because the device constantly calls the user to it with penalties for ignoring its signal, including death, starvation, and sickness, effectively keeping the device  in the child's consciousness at all times and interfering with other activities
Edited sentence: )  Some parents also express concern because the device constantly calls the user to it with penalties for ignoring its signal, including death, starvation, and sickness, effectively keeping the device  in the child's consciousness at all times and interfering with other, potentially constructive, activities