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Are you not aware of your child shifting from playgrounds to AC rooms with your phones or tablets? Make sure that this is a warning to us. Dr. Sumita Saha, Consultant Pediatrician at Fortis Hospital Anandapur has sounded an alert saying, “Parents often proudly describe how adept their little ones are with digital gadgets. Hardly do they realize that they are paving the way for a lot many behavioral and psychological disorders in future.”
Dr. Sanjay Garg, Head of the Department of Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences at Fortis Hospital Anandapur, mentioned the following drawbacks of overexposure to gadgets:
- Often the content, that the children get exposed to, is blatantly mature for their age. Parents should act as content mentors to avoid children coming across such mature content to order to avoid them becoming aggressive.
- The graphics of the gadgets change so fast that they fully involve the brain. The children slowly get used to such high levels of stimulation that they expect the same from all media. In the later stage, the books fail to provide the same level of stimulation that eventually results in a poor academic presentation.
- Excess screen time and exposure to graphics affects the functioning of the brain. The fast moving graphics of the gadgets makes the children restless and agitated.
- Cell phones with backlight puts lot of stress on the brain of the children.
As per Dr. Saha mentioned, “The children, now-a-days are so engrossed in the world of gadgets that the amount of physical activity, they experience, is compromised which in turn hinders their fine motor skill development. In olden days, the physical games that children used to play like Marbles, Kit games, Cricket, Football etc. used to help them develop physical balance, hand-eye coordination and keep them fit. Since these physical activities are slowly losing their charm, the children are hardly able to develop these vital skills.’
It is high time that parents start spending some quality time with the children so that they slowly take a move from the gadget world to the real human world.
