Should children get limited access to the internet?
Like the father I am, I think that the answer is yes. The first question I can imagine is: How could children manage the information bombs they receive every minute online? Violence, wrong information, insensibility, adult contents, etc. A lot of exposition on different issues gives our children psychological problems like inconsistent thoughts, strange behaviors, and lack of focus among others.
In my experience, I noticed that when my ten-years-old daughter is playing with cell phone apps, like roblox, snapchat, youtube, etc, she’s terribly concentrated and stuck only on it. I try calling her over and over again so I can get her attention on me. Don’t talk about when she has to do her homework! Furthermore, the exposure to a screen light is so harmful for the sight. Recently, ophthalmologic research explained this matter and pediatricians suggested exposure to the screen light for only an hour per day, obviously that’s almost impossible. An hour is almost nothing; time flies using tech. A simple strategy I have to reduce her exposure to tech is to control when she may use tech. If she does not want to do her homework or study for a test, she may not use tech. It works sometimes. However, this idea crumbles when children are on vacation…
Another problem specialists detected is that some babies’ parents lend smartphones to their children; they expose them to YouTube videos or music so that parents can do other activities and babies stare at the cellphones for hours. Doing this action repeatedly will have terrible consequences for babies’ sight. What are we going to do about this matter?
It will be difficult to manage this situation, so in my opinion, parents at least will have to regulate reducing the time that their children spend using tech. It is not easy, but it is a beginning.
In my experience, I noticed that when my ten-years-old daughter is playing with cell phone apps, like roblox, snapchat, youtube, etc, she’s terribly concentrated and stuck only on it. I try calling her over and over again so I can get her attention on me. Don’t talk about when she has to do her homework! Furthermore, the exposure to a screen light is so harmful for the sight. Recently, ophthalmologic research explained this matter and pediatricians suggested exposure to the screen light for only an hour per day, obviously that’s almost impossible. An hour is almost nothing; time flies using tech. A simple strategy I have to reduce her exposure to tech is to control when she may use tech. If she does not want to do her homework or study for a test, she may not use tech. It works sometimes. However, this idea crumbles when children are on vacation…
Another problem specialists detected is that some babies’ parents lend smartphones to their children; they expose them to YouTube videos or music so that parents can do other activities and babies stare at the cellphones for hours. Doing this action repeatedly will have terrible consequences for babies’ sight. What are we going to do about this matter?
It will be difficult to manage this situation, so in my opinion, parents at least will have to regulate reducing the time that their children spend using tech. It is not easy, but it is a beginning.