Screen Time And Your Child, Things You Need To Know

 

 

Is a smartphone your child's babysitter?

 

If you admit it, and your answer is YES,  I really admire your honesty, but you must know the facts about Screen Time And Your Kid.

    No one can deny the fact that in the tech-driven world of today, many parents use screens to keep their babies engaged as well as entertained while doing household chores, and the strategy really works. The radiant rectangle with colors and charms mesmerizes the little baby, and its screen captivates his attention uniquely and amazingly, allowing parents to get relaxed for a while.

 

 

A Miracle Of Tech-Age

It is a common practice of this age that babies are exposed to media devices before their first birthday, and at the age when a baby can hold the bottle hard, he starts watching Tv shows, calling someone, touching and scrolling a screen, using apps and playing video games.

 

Is It OK for a 6-month baby to watch TV or use a smartphone?

Absolutely not, kids under one year should not be exposed to a screen, whether it is of a smartphone, tablet, or TV.

 

It is the time when your baby has started to read faces and learn social skills. The face to face interaction is the basic way of learning at this stage. If you want to get lifetime benefits you should eliminate screen time in these precious moments

Your Toddler's Teddy Will Certainly Help You😊

If you want to engage your baby while you are busy with other essential jobs, let him play with his favorite toy.

 

 

 

 

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) encourages parents to help their children develop healthy media use habits early on. 

For children younger than8 months, use of screen media other than video-chatting discouraged.https://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/Media/Pages/Where-We-Stand-TV-Viewing-Time.aspx

 

Recommended Screen Time For Babies up to 3 Years

Babies younger than 18 months should have no screen time at all. The exception to this rule is video chatting with grandparents or other family friends, which is considered quality time interacting with others.

Toddlers 18 months to 24 months old can start to enjoy some screen time with a parent or caregiver. By ages 2 and 3, kids should watch no more than 1 hour a day.

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/screentime-baby-todd.html

The best activity you can give to your young baby up to 1 year is a good quality sleep, including a nap.

Researches proved that communication, problem-solving, and motor skills could be delayed as an effect of screen time on mental development. 

• Do You Know?
• The observed negative effect of screen time on the cognitive behavior of kids proved screen time bad for children's mental health.

Do you know that with exposure to the shiny world of the smart screens your child is exposed to the danger of serious diseases?

Being a parent of a media-driven age you should understand the connection between screen time and child development and how does screen time affects health.

Effect Of Screen Time On Kids Health

• Headache
• Migraine
• Poor night vision
• Myopia

Human behavior can be learned through humans only

Babies who are less than a year, can not be taught through machines. Human behavior can be learned through humans only. Machines can engage only, for learning a human child needs parents and caregivers.

We Handed Parenting  OverTo The Screensaver

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Have you ever thought about why a human newborn is more helpless as compared to the other species of its kingdom? 

Human nature is designed to learn through social interaction, in the form of relations. You, as a parent, are the important relationships in a child's life, and it's your responsibility to handle him, no device can replace you.

 

 

You Can Reduce The  Screen Time Of Your 4 years Child 

• Toys
• The games were participated by you. 
• Coloring activity.
• Singing
• Dancing
• Storytelling and making.
• Building things with blocks.

According to a recent survey conducted by the non-profit organization Common Sense Media, many parents are in fact concerned with the smartphone use of their children, with nearly half of them saying their child might be addicted to his or her mobile device

https://www.statista.com/chart/13052/smartphone-addiction-among-children/

Tips To reduce Screen Time Of  Your 3- 5 Years  Child

 

• Engage him in physical activities
• Tell him stories.
• Be a partner with him in his games
• Encourage him in sports.
• Art and craft

 

Minimize your own screen time.                                                      

 When Your child notices you checking your phone from 100 to 150 times for reason or not, feels ignored and assumes that a colorful screen in your hand should be much more important than others' feelings and emotions.

 Your 5 Years Kid Is Addicted to Screen

• Minimize your own screen time
• Spend quality time with your child.
• Play with your child.
• Set for your child the example.

The real problem begins when your kid is 5 years old and his only activity is exploring the apps and playing video games. He is socially detached, learns little about people's behaviors, and does not know how to respond to multiple situations but the screen can not be eliminated from his life because now it is the source of education and learning too.  But you must know about how much screen time kids should have, and the recommended average screen time for 5 years old.

• Here is a screen time recommended by the chart, suggesting the AAP ( American Academy of Pediatrics) screen time for children

  

  Screen Time And Your Child. Things You Need To Know. Screen time recommended by AAP

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Games About His Favorite Heroes Can Reduce A  5 Years Child's Screen Time

My son,  a big fan of The Spider-Man

 

 If your child is glued to his smartphone and getting detached from others' feelings, You can minimize your 5 years child's screen time.

• Engage him in the games related to hiss, the favorite character may be fictional or real.
• Encourage his physical activities.
• Tell him about the appropriate amount of screen time for a child.
• Engage him in book reading.
• Drawing and painting prove to be good alternatives for the screen.
• Explain what is allowed for him and what is not.
• Tell him about the people behind the media working for making money.
• Explain the uselessness of advertisement apps for him before eliminating them from his smartphone.
• Always preview games, apps, and programs before allowing your child.

Always remember to;

• Set Some Household Rules
• Make your bedroom screen-free.
• You can limit screen views by communication and activity-based time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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