Digital Kids, today's smart kids having great access to the latest tech products. Technology has covered the whole of the world and is on fire. Technology has an undeniably addictive quality. The more we try to detach from it, the more it attracts us. A major portion of tech-user belong to the age group 15-50, but this also popular among the children aged between 2-10years. Those who aren't trained enough to speak a proper word are using those devices smoothly majority for gaming and watching the video. Teens are reported to have a greater negative impact, but here we'll cover only the children.
Seeing today's pattern, today's kids are more virtual than real. Today's world is a digital world and so are the kids. The tech-kid relationship has grown so wide over the parental love. Looking at the life of a child 10 years ago and now has changed drastically to a greater extent. Just for memory, remember your days in 2000-2010, it was awesome right. You, today's parents, wish those days to be back. This is because you've created a memory worth remembering. But let's look at today's kids, why see others, see your own sons or daughters. Can you relater your childhood with theirs? No way, they're living in a different time, a different life. You had lots of friends in the neighbors, they have on their smartphones. Children are mainly addicted to YouTube and cartoon networks.
Among all the tech-products cellphones are at the top list in the context of Nepal. Have you ever wondered, why phones are called smartphones? Because it seizes your smartness into its owns. Hilarious right! But this is the truth. Cellphones these days are earing an entry in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DMS). Using cell phones for mental and anxiety distraction can help a lot, but looking at a long race of time, it creates a behavioral pattern that has a negative impact on mental health. There are many negative effects seen in your children of which some are listed below.
1. Neurological disorder
Researcher suggests that smartphones indeed have an effect on the brain. Smartphone users demonstrate a variety of brain-related problems. Research has suggested that mobile phone usage in children is increasing daily with their increasing mental problems. Children addicted to a smartphone are reported to be emotionally weak with loneliness. Their memory power has been deaccelerating with a decrease in the efficiency of their daily behaviors. They are most likely to develop ADHD which is a brain disorder with symptoms that include a pattern of hyperactive behavior, inattention, and impulsiveness that interferes with functioning and development of the brain. Basically, the child of age group 3-10 has retarded mental growth. This may create a critical condition in the future.
2.Eyesight
Children using smartphone 8-9 hours a day on a daily basis are reported to have poor blue light radiation which damages the photoreceptor cell in the retina and increase the risk of macular degeneration which may result in the permanent blindness.
eyesight. Smartphones radiate highly dangerous
3. Insomnia
Too much time on the mobile screen wreck their eyes and they lack sufficient time for the rest. Lack of proper rest can bring anxiety and distraction in their mental condition which disturbs the normal sleep time. For children aged 3-10 have a sleep time of 18/16/10 hours time respectively but with addiction to phones, their natural routine is disturbed which brings a condition of less sleep in them called insomnia. This also causes to decrease their focus and memory.4. Faceless communication
Binding oneself within the walls may result in the bad social development of the children. Humans are the social animals but we people are limiting ourselves within a confined territory of virtualization, and so do our children. They lack the quality to make new friends, couldn't adjust normally in society. They may face a variety of problems while making new friends and can't perform well in their friendship. They can develop such personality in the long term.
5. Weak physical fitness resulting in Weight gain
The 2000's child didn't have any tech products like smartphones, tablets, and laptops owing to which they had enough time visit their neighbors, make new friends and have physical
involvement in different plays and games. But today's digital kid have stuck themselves alone in their room and don't exercise physical activity. Since no physical activity is there, calories consumed by them couldn't get burnt total and the remaining gets added below their skin in the form of fats. This results in excessive weight gain and laziness. Their untimely weight gain can cause serious health issues which may not be common to the child group.
Parents, child first teacher, always want the wellbeing of their child. Parents buy smartphones for their child for instant communication it offers them. That's good but parent-child relationship suffers when technology usage isn't controlled. The tech-child relationship rules over the parent-child relationship. Children addicted to their smartphones have a wrong belief of being highly smart. Researcher and Common Sense Media reported that 30 percent of the children or teens believe that their parents know a little or nothing about what social media apps and sites they use. Respect and devotions are lost between the parent and their children.
We might have read various positive aspects of tech-products based on proof obtained by conducting research. But the time, conditions, need and demand has changed a lot.
What's new is that previous studies on this topic were made many years ago when social media, mobile phones, tablets and mobile apps didn't exit. Adam LeventhalWant the tips on how to manage such difficulties prevent future problems to occur, check next article on tips parents should use to control their child behavior in digital time.
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