Ways to Preventing Children from Using Electronic Devices

   

   The invention of technology has change the way society live from time to time. People are getting used to the electronic media and depend on it in their daily life. Although some effort has been try like digital detox zone or having a one week detox camp, all this seem not work as they start back to their usual life again. They feel inevitable to put down their devices they are using and change to the old method way of delivering messages or communicate. Just like what the video had show, we used electronic device from the day we wake up until we sleep and children nowadays are a very good example in showing the impacts of introduction of electronic device to them.

   Nowadays, we can easily found that children with age of 2 and above own an electronic device and seen playing with it anywhere. Not only the video games that make them cant stay apart from their gadgets, it is also includes television, smart phone application, computers, tablets and etc. They just stay in one place and play with their gadgets without going out to the playground and play with other children like the children in 20 years back. Their childhoods are not with the toys but with the influence of electronic devices. Those devices and games tend to keep those children out of reach of the reality. Apart from that, those electronic devices had impact the children to spend less time for outdoor activity with family and friends. When they are spending too much time on devices, they tend to less concentrate and focus in their school works and therefore it may affect their studies and academic results as well. Moreover, the addiction on spending long time on devices and gadgets may develop unhealthy lifestyle and poor eating habits for those children.

   Although it is impossible to totally eliminate children from exposing to those electronic devices nowadays, but there are the ways to minimize the negative impacts on the children. Parents play an important in managing their children’s electronic devices consumption. They have to understand the rating of the games and the television program in order to prevent their children expose to those violence games and programs. Besides, parents should avoid from setting up any electronic devices in the children bedroom in the sense of preventing the excessive usage of electronic devices which affecting the children’s sleeping time and health as well. Furthermore, all parents should impose media rules to the children by limiting their consumption of electronic devices each day and restrict children from exposing to online games. Apart form that, they should monitoring their children’s media usage such as video games, television, movies and Internet and make sure to always give supervision on their children Internet usage as much as possible. However, communication between the parents and the children is the best prevention for children from getting addicted on electronic devices. Parents are encourage to sharing views with their children while observing they play video games, television program or movies.

   Children are not able to differentiate the pros and cons at the early age and thus it is important for them to have a guardian, which are their parents and teachers as well in guarding and managing their electronic devices consumption. They should take this precaution step in order to prevent their children from exposing to the negative activities brought through electronic devices and harms the society.