Technology and Children

Twenty years ago, it was normal for children to play outside all day, ride bikes, play sports, and build forts. Children sensing world was nature-based and simple. Family time was spent doing chores and, dining, however, today families have changed due to the rapid growth of technology and people’s busy lives. Everyone is heavily dependent on technology to make their life more efficient. Today children on average use 7.5 hours per day of the entertainment technology and that’s a problem.

The 4 critical factors that are necessary to achieve healthy child development are:

1] Movement

2] Teach

3] Human connection

4] Exposure to nature

This ensured development of posture, bilateral coordination, optimal arousal states, and self-regulation.

Young children are also required 2 to 3 hours of rough physical activities because it helps achieve adequate sensory stimulation to the vestibular system, proprioceptive system, and tactile system but now technology is preventing them. Technology impacts the basic foundation skills for achieving literacy and slows down child development, this is because visual and auditory systems are an overload with technologies and use. It also limits children’s bodies to achieve optimal sensory and body development. Due to technology children also have less ability to focus and have a harder time critically think. They use technology as a way to get out of social interactions and this affects the development of emotions and empathy, this, later on, affects the relationship with others.

The blue light children are exposed to before night-time suppresses the ‘hormone melatonin, which regulates the sleep and wake cycle this makes a hundred for children to sleep which affects their development because sleep is what hosts the development occurs. Other things like obesity and diabetes are national epidemics in North America and are directly related to the overuse of technology. Technology can also cause ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), Coordination disorder, developmental delays, unintelligible speech, learning difficulties, cantering processing disorder, anxiety, depression, and much more. Technology makes children hard-wired for high speed, so when they enter school they struggle with self-regulation and skills are necessary for learning.

House officials seem unable to agree on the impact smartphones and similar devices have on developing brains, studies contradict each other and the benefits the technology uncovered regularly. Due to technology a child is more capable of handling rapid cyber searches, making quick decisions, and multitasking. The games they play can help develop peripheral vision also visual tasks like tracking objects or visually searching for items is improved. Internet users tend to use decision-making and problem-solving brain regions more often, which is good for child development. smartphones and tablets can foster learning concepts communication and companionship.

Parents should be aware of all the possible side effects a smartphone can Harbour, whether that be positive or negative all of this inconclusive evidence can lead a pair to question when they should allow their children access to smartphones or other technology.

Many programs have acknowledged are trying to understand the complex effects of technology and one of them includes the tablet project aims to provide an evidence base for parent’s policymakers and scientists to understand how the youngest generation is developing in the context of a media-built environment and to inform future decision making.

One thing all the experts seem to agree on is that moderation is key so our parents Peter balance for children to their children pigs bite the benefits without the negatives they should monitor the use of technology, teach responsible usage, be familiar with new technology and offer alternatives to technology.

Everyone including parents and teachers needs to come together and help society wake up and see the devastating effects technology is having not only on our children’s physical, psychological and behavioral health but also on their ability to learn and sustain personal and family relationships.

As technology continues to advance knowledge regarding its detrimental effects is lessening though no one can argue the benefits of advanced 4G in today’s world connection to these devices, these you really affect the next generation. Technology is the knowledge, skills, methods, and techniques required to produce tools and equipment for people’s needs. Almost none of us can imagine life without it. Based on this definition, we may think that we should only focus on the advantages of technology; however, in the case of unconscious use, we can very well face its negative effects!

Rather than a hug, playing, roughhousing, and conversing with children parents are increasingly resorting to providing the children with more TV video games and the latest iPads and cell phone devices this creates deep and irreversible chasms between parent and child. And also raises questions like how children are like in future generations could technology lead to an evolutionary disaster I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

And remember guy’s “We can’t expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.”