As we discussed earlier, parents and family members plays an important role in shaping childhood. Apart from parenting, caring and inculcating good habits, managing electronic media in child rearing is an important and complex task.
Mobile has become an essential tool in today’s era and as it has its own place in daily affairs, it is impossible to stop usages of mobile but a golden mean should be tried that the mobile shall only be used when it is necessary. Even if it is an essential thing, its overuse can be dangerous, thus it is necessary to consider the pros and cons.
Parents and family members should consider and study their own mobile phone usage before thinking on use of mobile by children. If parents overuse mobile phones, children may unintentionally imitate them and start getting attracted to mobile phones, so first of all, parents should discipline themselves and control the use of mobile phones.
The first step should is to get away from cell phone addiction that most parents do have. While it is inevitable to use mobile phones when necessary, engaging with children is more enjoyable than engaging with mobile phones, when not necessary, because children’s minds are happy in the presence of their parents.
When children do not eat or refuse to eat, many parents hand over mobile phones and while doing so, they think that their work is done, and this is where the mistake begins. Under no circumstances should mobile phones be given to children while eating.
If children are watching mobile phones while eating, their attention is not on the food, but on the mobile phone. Due to neglecting concentration on the eating process, the body may have to face consequences without the benefit of the food.
Therefore children should not allowed to engage in mobile while eating. The important thing is that, if this discipline of mobile phone usage is inculcated in the children, this discipline will be definitely beneficial for the children later in life.
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