Does your child usually play with his mobile phone?
In this era of mobile Internet, mobile phones are like "flood beasts", menacing, many children return home from school the first thing, is to open the mobile phone, usually walk to see, eat to see, and even hide in the bed to see, children's lives have long been closely linked with mobile phones.
How to avoid children playing with mobile phones and keep children away from the "poison" of mobile phones has become a compulsory course for almost all parents.
In fact, it is also true that many authoritative organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Academy of Pediatrics, believe that there are many harms in children playing mobile phones for a long time, and we must pay more attention.
What are the dangers of children playing with mobile phones?
1. Sedentary
This is the "culprit" of harm caused by electronic products such as mobile phones.
Many adults may have a similar experience, after a long period of sitting, back pain, over time it is easy to cause obesity, physical weakness, myopia and other health problems.
The same is true for children, holding the mobile phone for a long time, it is easy to cause the child's vision to be damaged, which in turn causes a series of health problems.
2. Screen light
The American Academy of Pediatrics has pointed out that when children play with electronic products such as mobile phones, because of long-term exposure to blue light, they will delay or disturb sleep, further affecting normal life and learning.
3. Screen content
The screen content in electronic products such as televisions and mobile phones is constantly changing, although the child looks fully concentrated, but in fact, the picture seen is switching rapidly, which will easily lead to the child's inability to concentrate.
And because the information children receive on mobile phones is not easy to control, some violent, pornographic, high-calorie snack advertisements and other content may adversely affect children.
4. Lack of interaction
Many parents are accustomed to having their phones act as their children's "nannies" – the child cries incessantly and uses his phones to quiet him down.
However, allowing children to play mobile phones is far less than the real, face-to-face interaction when accompanied by parents, which is not only easy to affect the parent-child relationship, but also not conducive to the development of children's early brains, including the development of cognition, language, logical reasoning and other abilities.
Completely forbidden children to play mobile phones can not, "forbidden fruit effect" to understand
Since there are so many dangers to children playing with mobile phones, should we quickly isolate mobile phones from children and completely prohibit children from playing mobile phones?
The answer is no, such an approach will not only not save the child from the "poison" of the mobile phone, but will also be too late, so that the child will become more intense.
In psychology, there is a concept called the "forbidden fruit effect," also known as the "Adam and Eve effect."
As the name suggests, just like "Adam and Eve steal the forbidden fruit", children tend to have greater curiosity about the things that adults explicitly prohibit, and they are more eager to try, and we forbid children to play mobile phones.
In this regard, some parents may wonder, if children cannot be prohibited from playing mobile phones, should they go with the flow and let them hold mobile phones all day?
Of course not, in fact, as long as we find the right way, we can use a gentle method to solve the problem, for this, the star Bao Ma Haiqing once shared her method, which is of great reference significance to us.
How to avoid kids playing with their phones?
After finding that the child likes to play mobile phones, Haiqing did not forcibly prohibit, but with a gentle attitude to restrict the child, she took the initiative to help the child choose the game, in the content to achieve strict control, each game is her own first pass, and then recommend to the child.
Haiqing's approach circumvents the "forbidden fruit effect", without a complete ban on children, children will naturally not have a stronger curiosity about the game, and after her screening, when the child plays the mobile phone, he can be more exposed to those beneficial physical and mental content, to avoid the problem of indulging in games.
When we avoid children playing mobile phones, we can also learn from Haiqing's practices, but the thinking can be more open, first of all, do not completely prohibit children from playing mobile phones, and at the same time guide children to shift their attention from mobile phones to other aspects.
For example, sports, reading, parent-child games, etc., through high-quality accompaniment, let children discover those more fun and interesting things in life, then naturally will not fully focus on mobile phones, mobile phones are not flood beasts. As one saying goes, "Parents who complain that their children are addicted to games are irresponsible parents because their children must lack quality companionship." ”
Crooked Mom Conclusion:
Mobile phones are not a flood beast in the full sense, children play mobile phones are not "black and white", so that children properly contact mobile phones also have certain benefits.
When we avoid children playing with mobile phones, we should pay attention to the "forbidden fruit effect", properly control, and guide children to shift their attention to beneficial mobile phone content and interests outside the mobile phone, which is much better than "complete prohibition".
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