Smart Phone and its Negative impact on kids….
Do you know how all these devices are affecting the learning and personality of our young children?
In the last two decades, technology has influenced every aspect of our lives and made it very comfortable. Mobile devices such as cell phones, tablets and smartphones have increased the accessibility and use of technology among young children.
Now people have started keeping these devices near even newborn babies and toddlers, due to which the development, behavior and learning ability of children is badly affected. The effect of technology on young children is 4-5 times faster than on adults and it can cause many disturbances in their natural development.
1. Rapid brain development
(Rapid brain growth):
By the age of two, children’s brains almost triple in size and by the time they are 21, physical changes keep happening in it. The early development of the brain depends on the presence or absence of a variety of environmental stimuli.
Overexposure to technology on the developing brain leads to changes in learning ability, poor attention, poor eating habits, poor eyesight, hyperactivity, and problems with self-discipline.
2. Growth Slows*
(Delayed development):
The kind of technology that we have today limits the movements of children, which can retard their physical development. One in three school-going children show sluggish physical development, affecting their academic abilities and abilities. By doing physical activity, children learn to focus and develop new skills. The intervention of technology in the lives of children below the age of 12 years is detrimental to their development and academic progress.
3. Epidemic obesity:
Children who were given these devices to use in their rooms were found to have a 30 percent higher risk of becoming obese. Obese children also have a 30 percent increased risk of developing diabetes and developing paralysis and heart attack as they grow older. All these dangers reduce their life expectancy. It is being said that in the 21st century, the age of children will not be as long as the age of their parents.
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4. Sleep deprivation:
60 percent of parents do not monitor their children’s use of technology and 75 percent of children have a free hand to use technology in their bedroom.
The sleep of these children in the age group of nine to ten years is being affected due to the interference of technology, which affects their studies.
5. Mental illness:
Uncontrolled use of technology has led to an increase in children with depression, anxiety, attachment disorder, attention deficit, autism, bipolar disorder, psychosis, and problem child behavior. .
6…Aggression:
Violence is shown a lot in the media, TV, movies and games, which is increasing aggression in children. Young children these days are exposed to programs and games of physical and sexual violence that are rife with scenes of murder and torture. Violence seen in the media is classified as a public health risk in America because it distorts the development of children.
7. Digital dementia:
Children’s ability to focus is severely affected by high-speed media content so that they are unable to concentrate on one thing and remember facts. Children who suffer from the problem of distraction, they find it difficult to study.
8. Addictions:
When parents themselves are lost in their gadgets, they tend to distance themselves emotionally from their children. For better development, it is important that parents give time to their children. When children miss their parents, they get lost in the flow of technology and information and become addicted to it. About 10 percent of children who make full use of technology have become so addicted to it that they forget their food and drink and are glued to their gadgets from waking up in the morning till going to sleep at night.
9..Dangers of Radiation emission:
In May 2011, the WHO listed the radiation exposure of cell phones in the 2B category as a possible carcinogen.
10. Eye strain:
The ill effects of smartphones and similar gadgets are first seen in the eyes of children as they stare at the backlit screen for hours. It can also be called computer vision syndrome. If you want to protect your kids’ eyesight, don’t let them watch the screen for more than 30 minutes at a time.
