Is Child’s Digital Habit, Good or Bad?
Posted on: 18/Aug/2014 10:54:58 AM
In this modern era, the mounting flow of electronic appliances at home, either it may be TV, desktops, smart phones, laptops, tablets or IPods seem a major interference in the parent-child liaison. Though parents grumble on their children being addicted to gadgets most of the time, they don’t understand that children’s digital habits are an exact imitative of their parents.
The excess use of electronic gadgets may results in physiological and behavioral changes in children. The digital fanatics, who are sticks to gadgets all the time, looks like evading their social skills, do not tail other interests and turned out to be more hostile when they are weaned away from it, says a clinical psychologist.
Also, more dodgy consequences are that children also confront the danger of unconsciously becoming sufferers of cyber crimes.
With the latest digital parenting app, named ‘e-Kavach’, which exactly acts as an electronic shield that aids parents to monitor the precise internet access hours of their children on several electronic gadgets including smart phones, tablets and desktops, check downloads and scrutinize many sort of cyber threats or be warned on spam messages.
Do you know how the children get way in to such gadgets? A budding number of parents find electronic appliances an effortless way out to appease the attention of children.
Though such preventive apps are a welcome gauge, the basic fact is that parents themselves should realize to expend more time with their kids than their widgets.
