On vacation, many parents feel that their children usually study hard and want to let them relax, and also take the opportunity to make up for their children’s usual eager interests, however, in addition to travel, sports, food, etc., allowing children to uncontrollably indulge in tablets, smart phones and other electronic products will bring many potential hazards, today let us take a look at the impact of electronic products on children.
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A, affect the child’s language development and social skills
Low-age children are exposed to electronic products, mostly because parents can not “handle” the child, in order to relieve the tension caused by the child crying, parents too often use iPad or smartphone to divert the baby’s attention.
Around the age of two is the explosive period of children’s language development, when the richness of the language environment is very important for the development of children’s language skills, and children who are addicted to electronic products, the lack of language communication with the family, often resulting in language development backward. At the same time, when a child is unhappy, the use of electronic products to comfort, but also reduce the baby and the parents to get along and bond, easy to develop a child’s “little bully” attitude.
The accumulated experience of children crying and parents soothing, this kind of bonding will be the resilience that no one can take away from children when they face challenges in the future, all the perceptions will remain in different areas of the deep brain and become the basis for self-regulation of emotions in the future. As they grow older and even as adults, when they reach a point where they don’t know what to do, they will naturally connect to early anxious and helpless situations, and the ability to self-regulate emotions acquired at an early age is an effective means of addressing this situational barrier. One encounter with children crying and trying to solve problems with the tablet, these hazards will directly affect the development of children’s social skills.
Second, not conducive to children’s brain function development
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a statement that young children under the age of two may not be able to gain knowledge from television, and that watching too much television can delay language development and cause attention problems.
In Taiwan, there is a clear law prohibiting children under the age of 2 from being exposed to electronic devices. For preschoolers, studies have also shown that excessive reliance on electronics can affect the physiological development of the brain, especially on the frontal lobe of the brain, which can manifest as poor concentration, memory loss, impulsiveness, irritability, emotional indifference, and lack of patience, which can directly affect the child’s future academic success.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that infants and toddlers from 0 to 3 years old must use all their sensory perceptions, including hearing, vision, smell, touch, and location, in a constant interaction with the outside world in order to develop their brain’s sensory integration capabilities and gain cognitive development. We can simply understand it as a method of intellectual development and promotion. From this we can see that if the child is addicted to electronic products, then most of the sensory perception is idle except for the visual, which is obviously not conducive to the development of the child’s brain function.
Third, indulging in electronic products can bring a variety of diseases
Some children’s fascination with electronic products has reached the level of forgetting to eat and sleep, which is bound to affect the normal diet and sleep, in the long run on the growing body of children will bring malnutrition, growth retardation hazards. In addition, there is a special case, anorexia picky eating children, parents in order to “cheat” children to eat more bites, with cell phones, television and other electronic products to divert the attention of children, in the case of children do not pay attention, can stuff a bite is a bite, the consequences of doing so interfere with the normal hunger of children’s biological rhythm, easy to further cause The child lacks the desire to actively seek food and eat, and undoubtedly falls into a vicious circle.
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In addition, prolonged use of electronic products, will cause eye fatigue, myopia; fixed to maintain a low posture, will occur cervical spine disease; inappropriate games or screen content on the child’s psychological behavior of the negative impact.
Fourth, electronic products to be used reasonably rather than to eliminate
When society has entered the information age, cell phones, computers have become the “necessities of life”, arbitrarily prohibit children from access to any electronic products, is also impractical, more likely to cause children in the psychological excessive desire, so the reasonable use of electronic products than to eliminate the use of more operational, but also easier to get the cooperation of children.
We would like to give parents the following suggestions.
1, strict control of the use of time: 2 years old to 3 years old to play 10 minutes a day; 3 years old to 4 years old to play 15 minutes a day; 4 years old to 5 years old to play 20 minutes a day; 5 years old to 6 years old to play 30 minutes a day. This can not only reduce the use of electronic products for a long time to bring a variety of hazards, but also to train children from childhood to comply with the rules, on the other hand, is also an exercise of the child’s willpower.
2, open a small light: when the light is low, open a light can effectively reduce the impact on vision produced by the large difference in light inside and outside the screen.
3, parents set an example: children are the best at imitating adults, if parents themselves are also a low head, then all the requirements for children will also lack convincing.
4, give children more interesting activities: Why children indulge in electronic products? Because there are no more interesting activities. Take your child to some outdoor activities and sports, parents should play an exemplary role, in front of children as little as possible to contact electronic products, more interactive games with children.