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- Medical Video: What parents should know about the online survival game Fortnite
- Most parents believe that they are good examples
- This is the impact if parents play mobile phones when taking care of children
- Children also tend to have behavioral and emotional disorders
Medical Video: What parents should know about the online survival game Fortnite
Are you the type of person who can't escape from smartphone? Whether because of work or just checking social media, parents who constantly check HP have a negative impact on child behavior development. So, don't be busy playing cellphones when taking care of children.
Most parents believe that they are good examples
Indeed, not all parents are busy with gadgetwhen together with children. However, we also cannot deny that today, cellphones and other cyber technology often "snatch" someone from the reality around him, including his own children.
This was also reported by a research media survey Common sense. This survey involved more than 1,700 parents who had children aged 8 to 18 years. From Common Sense searches, it was found that parents spend time in front of the screen about nine hours per day. This includes playing cellphones while caring for children, with most of the time spent exploring personal social media. Whereas approximately 90 minutes are spent on work interests.
The results of the study also explained that 78 percent of parents feel confident that they are role model exemplary alias that is good for their children. Conversely, reported by Tirto, 56 percent of parents worry about their childrenaddicted to gadget and technology, while the remaining 34 percent consider that technology can have a negative impact on the growth and development of their children.
According to James P. Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense said that this finding was very interesting, parents and children were both using it gadget and technology for their entertainment, but on the other hand parents also express concern about addictiongadget for his children.
This is the impact if parents play mobile phones when taking care of children
Information and activity in other cyberspace is indeed not always a negative effect on its users. This was also agreed upon by 94 percent of parents in the same survey. They stated that technology has benefits for their children. As many as 44 percent of parents even feel that they believe gadget can help build friendships for their children.
The same reason behind the parents remains loyal to the various activities and their busy life in cyberspace. However, recent research shows a link between use gadgetwith the potential for less harmonious relations between parents and children.
Brandon T. McDaniel in research at journal Child Development states that bad children's behavior is related to the time parents spend playing gadget, including playing cellphones when taking care of children. McDaniel, a researcher from Illinois State University in the United States, called the disorder a technoference.
The study involved 170 families with two parents, and researchers asked mothers and fathers to complete the questionnaire separately. Nearly half of the parents surveyed (48 percent) said that technology distracts them from their children at least three times a day. Meanwhile, 24 percent of parents consider HP to interfere with their interactions with children up to twice a day.
While about 17 percent of parents rate gadgetdisturbing family time. However, it turns out that only 11 percent of parents are willing to distance themselves from cellphones, tablets, laptops, tablets and computers when spending time with their children.
Children also tend to have behavioral and emotional disorders
Impact gadget to Children's behavior is also explained in the study of Laura Birks of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Spain journal International Environment.
Laura conducted a study on 83,884 couples of mothers and children in Spain, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Korea. Laura found that children whose mothers often spend time with cellphones or are busy playing cellphones while taking care of children will be at risk of behavioral and emotional disorders.
In addition, Laura and her colleagues also found that children born to mothers who like to call more than four times a day have a 28 percent chance of growing into a hyperactive child.
Response to this, Larry Rosen, professor emeritus at California State University, Dominguez Hills advises every parent to limit the duration of playing cellphones when taking care of children.
Rosen states that children will absorb what they see. In addition, they will also learn and form relationships from their parents' behavior. Continuously checking your cellphone or playing cellphones when caring for children will have a negative impact on your relationship with your child.
