Kid’s gadgets addiction has become frustration for the parents. The parents unceasingly express dissatisfaction and stress regarding children using gadgets excessively. Most of them are aware about the negative impact of excessive and unguided use of gadgets in kid’s physical, psychological and social development. Their agony is inevitable.
But as a parents have you ever imagined that your overindulgence in an smart phone is affecting your kids more!
“A study conducted by a group of Chinese researchers Xiaochun Xie and JulanXie (published in Journal of Adolescence) has revealed that parents who ignore their kids and are engrossed in their smartphones instead may be putting their offspring at risk of depression.”
We often see parents don’t drop phone aside even during interaction with their kids. It’s like eyes and finger scrolling screen and paying quarter attention to the kids. This immersion in phone is so intense that they even get irritated when kid try to talk or ask something. They loose track of their children sometime unless something fatal happens. This is not only degrading the quality of a parent-child interaction but also induce children towards developing risky attention seeking behaviors which often leads to the injuries.
Children of smartphone addicted parents feel unimportant and uncared. Due to inadequate guidance and attention children develops negative thoughts and negative behavior . They start feeling sad, angry and lonely. Consequently, it gradually affects the overall development of the children, especially, their mental health.
There is nothing wrong in using smart-phones unless you use it smartly. In fact, Smart-phones have become an integral part of our life due to it’s multiple useful functionalities. But remember that smart-phones are supposed save our time so that we can have more quality time with our loved ones in this fast pace of life. Unfortunately, things are just opposite.
Parents have to allocate time and be disciplined in order to bring balance between nurturing children and smartphone use. Your slight adjustment in lifestyle can prevent an entire generation from falling in the sump of chaos. Your attention and time is the blessing for your children. Save your kids from the risk of depression. Talk to your kids like you talk your phones….
By Sandip Gupta
SKETCH NEPAL 