Do you know why you don’t leave your mobile phone to a child?Would it be right, would it be false? We understand this doubt, because new technologies are part of our lives and children are becoming smarter in their use, their great ability to learn at this age, their curiosity and the infinite world of possibilities offered by electronic devices make them irresistible to them.
Childhood is one of the areas where new technologies are increasingly present, and children rush to ask for the mobile phone “screaming”. In order for you to make a wise and informed decision, we share three good reasons in this article not to leave your mobile phone to a child or at least leave it under supervision and for a limited time.
- Operating in an environment where we are always stimulated may seem like a positive circumstance.
- In fact.
- Many child development experts stress the need to encourage children from an early age to achieve maximum intellectual development.
- What happens with mobile phones in this regard is that the stimulation they produce is not healthy.
Why isn’t it healthy? Mobile devices constantly stimulate the brain and provide a changing, dynamic and ever-changing environment. This excess stimulation for the child is very pleasant, but it is not healthy because it is not similar to the stimulus that the child finds later in real life.
Thus, it is said that an overstimulation is not healthy because part of it is still very artificial, which can cause great frustration when the child faces real life (more boring and less stimulating). For these reasons, there are studies linking mobile phone use by children under the age of 10 (when the stage of the white substance in the brain is at its peak) with the onset of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Leaving a child with a mobile phone means giving access to a vast world that parents can’t control: the world of the Internet Explain metaphorically: if you don’t leave your child alone in a mall without looking at who you’re talking to, who you’re playing with, and who you’re talking to, why leave it alone on your cell phone?
Even if you think your child can make controlled use of your mobile phone, this idea isn’t realistic, if you think about it, you’ll know what your child does with your mobile phone for the first few days, but after that, he’s very likely to have confidence and let his guard down, so over time you can expose your child to a series of stimuli and situations you don’t control.
On the other hand, by leaving a child’s mobile, you help them prefer social relationships, rather than face-to-face and real-time relationships, resulting in greater difficulty acquiring social skills, which can be an obstacle to your social and professional life as an adult.
The use of a mobile phone since childhood prevents the development of an important skill: concentration, in fact, mobile devices are designed to change from one stimulus to another, and concentration is the opposite (focus on one stimulus at a time, constantly and for extended period of time).
It is true that children can focus a lot on what appears on the screens, but it is an easy concentration: it is guided by continuous changes and therefore much of the weight is maintained by the phone itself. Fortunately for everyone, children and parents, the brain is flexible and can learn to concentrate even if it is an adult brain; However, if there is a possibility, it is better for them to learn from an early age.
In the same way, by leaving a child’s mobile phone, you are depriving him of learning to overcome boredom through his own initiatives. Being able to be bored is very important, but with the phone you can make sure that she is always entertained and that she doesn’t have to deal with boredom. Of course, you also make the child work harder, sometimes a child, more uncomfortable? and ‘agitated’. However, this test of patience is a good thing for him.
Finally, although in this article we have focused on why you should not use your mobile phone in childhood, there are reasons that can be good or neutral and that you also have to take into account, anyway the important thing is to have control over what happens: if we leave the phone to the child, we must be attentive.
Don’t use your mobile phone as a resource to keep your child calm for a while and don’t reduce the level of tracking, it’s also a matter of time management: if grandparents or others already allow access to the phone, tell them how you want In this case, it’s even more advisable not to let the child play with the phone , even if you call us “bad” people, so that the time of exposure to technology is not doubled.