Gadgets and Children: Finding the Positive, Negative Stem

Do you have, or see or find, a child who can play the gadget when reading alone is not smooth? Confirmed that the child was not the only one in the world, almost certainly also not the only child with a similar toxicity in Indonesia. Children and gadgets it has become the norm, though not necessarily a positive impact.

Children today are very familiar with the gadgets. I know that this is not entirely justified. I still agree with the opinion that the child should spend his free time playing outside the home with peers, or run around until exhausted or play bike. But in fact, many of those who spend their time playing games or watching Youtube videos on the gadget.

Many children who struggle with excessive gadget can have negative things like potential eye pain, lack of movement, resulting in obesity, until it difficult to absorb the lessons at school.

Not that uses gadgets are useless. Children who are already skilled use of gadgets meant to follow the development of technology. Children can also learn English because that's the language that dominates the interface of a gadget. In addition, a number of studies have also proved that they were playing games have better focus and can do many things (multitasking) as well.

Charge an error to the parents who gave gadgets (at least to give permission to use the gadget) also does not solve the problem. The problem is the gadget has been increasingly attached to everyday life, not to mention the life of a child.

Well, this is where the role of parents to control the use of gadgets by children. Do not let children actually spend the time to use gadgets and forget the main activities that study, rest, eat and play. Or no less sad is not to children exposed to negative content are scattered not only on the internet, but also locally downloaded to mobile phones in the form of pictures, videos or applications.

Parents should be able to determine what content is worth (or should) be consumed by children in order to support the development of children according to age. Not just block access to adult sites and applications, parents also can balance it by introducing a ban on websites or applications that educative and entertaining.

To help parents choose the content and applications that are beneficial to children, we ask you the reader Yahoo Indonesia to donate his opinion through polls and column comments on this article.

In pollingnya, you want to know actually who have greater power and influence to determine the content and application of what is accessible to children, either alone or in gadgets gadgets child's father and mother. In the comments, you must mention your site or applications that are useful for the development of children. We wait for participation, yes!