When i see my kids with all
types technology gadgets i always thinking am i putting my kids in danger?
Nowadays kids are growing up with a highly sophisticated media, computer and
technology gadgets. Is it right if i say the screens are stealing childhood?
My kids are playing games on
galaxy tabs at 1 and half years ages, watching LCD tv at age of 3 months and
playing with iPhone at 6 months age.....
When i realized what happen
to my kids i remember of what Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at California
State University as well author of Understanding Our Obsession with Technology
and Overcoming its Hold on Us, says "It
is no longer OK to start talking to your kids about technology when they are in
their teens. You have to start talking to them about it as soon as you hand
them your iPhone or let them watch television or Skype with grandma".
Professor Larry Rosen as well
suggests a ratio of screen time to other activities of 1:5 for very young
children, 1:1 for pre-teens and 5:1 for teenagers. Parents should also have
weekly talks with their children from the start or looking for signs of
obsession and addiction to technology gadgets.
Nowadays
technology has been absorbed so comprehensively, media convergence means that
everything from war and peace, television movies, video, computer games as well
as internet all these are with potentially different effects on a child's
brain... this is something that realy give me big challenge to educated my kids
now and forever in future.... I am also worries about my kids loss of time
spent thinking creatively and imaginatively because a lots of time there has to
be visual stimulus...
As i take
a look around, at home, in cars, at shopping centres and even in restaurants
there are always a chances to find young children engrossed not in the world
around them, but in their new digital reality!! This is something same goes to
my kids.....
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