It’s a new day, and another school goes home to a parent who can’t wait to log in and unwind. But before you start browsing, it’s worth taking a minute to think about what kind of screen time your child is getting. Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the negative effects of screen time on developing minds. So, you might be wondering if you should cut back.
But figuring out how much time is too much isn’t as easy as it sounds. You don’t want your child feeling left out or isolated from society. But, that doesn’t mean they need to spend hours each day staring at screens in order to keep up with their peers. On the contrary, many experts now believe that screen time is actually good for kids. It is as long as you know how much your child is getting and how you can plan ahead before children are exposed to screen.
Screen Time Is Less About Quantity Than It Is About Quality
Kids should spend some amount of time each day socializing with their friends. They should be doing other activities like reading or writing. That’s really what will give them a sense of normalcy and happiness outside their electronic world. However, if they’re spending more time than that using screens and social networks, and applications, then there is a problem.
To keep track of how much time your child spends on-screen activities, you can follow these guidelines:
- Keep tabs on what your kids are doing online. This will help you to know when they’ve spent too much time looking at or chatting with their friends online. You can set daily limits to restrict the amount of time they spend on social networks and chat rooms.
- Make sure that any devices they use have parental controls installed. That way you’ll be able to set limits and restrictions on their screen activities as well as view their online history and enter passwords if needed. Do your homework. Find out if there are any parental control features available on the devices your children want to use the most. Be sure to check out what kind of content is available for them to view, too.
- Don’t let screen time take over social time. Encourage your children to make real-life friends and play with toys instead of using screens all the time. You may also encourage them to try outdoor activities if you think they might be spending too much screen time each day. But, don’t push them too hard, as they may resent the pressure.
- Make sure that you’re setting a good example yourself when it comes to screen time, too. This may be the most important tip of all since our children learn from us. Explain to them how important it is to spend time enjoying life in the real world. Tell them how it can help them better appreciate than their devices. They will learn to use their technology responsibly. Thus, soon you won’t have to worry about them spending too much time on their screens.
Importance Of Guiding The Children About Screen Time-
Screen time is one of the issues that need to be addressed in our life. Screen time is important not only for the fruit of our eyes but also for the complete set of subtleties in our kid’s minds. When we expose them to various activities and regular physical exercises, they become a confident and jolly individual. Someone who enjoys their daily work and has no difficulty in interacting with others and fitting into groups.
It is important to know that screen time pricks all the holes in their brain that leads to their growth and development. When we keep on exposing them to all sorts of things, they become equipped to handle life’s responsibilities without any hindrance. This is what we call the success of our child. If we keep on restricting them from one thing or another, they develop a feeling of inferiority and become lazy and non-sensitive towards things around them.
If we allow them to spend more time sitting idle in front of TV and computer screen:
1) They lose touch with reality and become lonelier than ever. They become unpopular in school and their social skills get hampered which upsets them a lot as they start hating others as well as themselves. This is how they fail to deal with the problem at its early stage. Instead, it grows with time and engulfs their entire aspect of life. This is how they start hating everything around them and lose interest in everything that has to do with them.
2) They become addicted to TV/computer screen and starts losing sight of right and wrong. When they lose their sensitivity, it causes them to become the cynic of society. He starts thinking only negative things about society and his life. He becomes lazy gradually as he starts hating his work so much that he even gets irritated when his boss questions him about something. After becoming addicted, they start doing whatever is asked by their boss without any care so much so that they start losing their interest in work as well as study.
3) They become so much careless towards their parents or seniors at the workplace which leads to disaster in the long run. Even though they are suffering from various problems, but they never think about it. They just look at their own troubles and do not think about the completely different problems which might affect them in the future.
4) They start feeling that everything is over for them. This is how they lose their interest in doing any sort of activities like studying, sports, games and become careless about anything related to them for which they feel like they are suffering from some sort of disorder. Finally, this leads to despair and depression which drives them away further from their dreams and goals.
5) This leads to an unhealthy thinking process in their mind which deals with issues related to life in a negative way. In order to express this, it starts losing its sensitivity towards itself when it deals with any sort of problems that it encounters from time to time.
Conclusion-
Screen time can be a double-edged sword that, if used properly, can help the kid reach the peaks of success. However, if used improperly (i.e. too much screen time) it can be hazardous to your kid’s social growth and his mental health. As parents, it is our duty to educate our children about the positive side of screen time as well as the negative side of it so that they may make their own choices in life without any doubt (or at least minimal doubt). Nowadays children are getting more addicted to TVs and screens which is making their field smaller with respect to reality.
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