The Impact of Modern Gadgets On Our children

Role Of Technology In Child's Life

The technological is upgrading in rapid progress, every now and then technology introduces us with its new-tech innovation which surprisingly helps us in many ways, Hi-tech gadgets have replaced the toys. Gadgets are not limited to fun, but it pushes you to go to extra-mile, encourage you to bring out your hidden creativity, or maybe art. We always in a world which constantly changing and has problems to solve, and the way it solves called "Creativity" at least for me. There are a number of gadgets that can suit to all-age group infact it would be better if you offer them some of the gadgets that are used to solve the puzzle games as most children love to solve it. Puzzle-solving Games help children to hold the information, and the flexibility of their mind gives them self-control as solving puzzles takes time not only this but it teaches you patience. However, there are plenty of Games & Gadgets available in the market that can easily allure your children but are they enough to boost your children's confidence and the capability of your brain?

It is needless to say, that most of the children love spending their time on different gadgets, for instance, Smartphones, TV, Gaming Consoles, and so on. spending a lot of time on these gadgets while having fun because these gadgets for watching videos, listening to songs, chatting with their friends, or just to browse the internet, hence the children always occupied in all those activities without even paying attention to their posture, another impact that these gadgets have is like, the screen radiation the brightness, which affect the vision.

I think this is the reason, that why most children of today's era have this spectacle as staring screen continuously for a long time leads to stress. You will be surprised to know that, 1 out 3 children can use a tablet or phone before they even talk as per the study conducted in "USA" on kids. The usage doesn't stop here in-fact in "Daily Mail" reported(2013) that 29% of the toddler can easily use the gadgets, they can easily become the master by primary school age. isn't surprising? we all know using too much can lead to an adverse effects on health and all as they blink less and stare more on average a person only blinks around 5 times in a minute as gadgets and programs required you to be more focused, a normal person blinks around 15 times. now you imagine the adverse effect on health, it is no more surprising for us to see 2 years old baby using, holding gadgets. Let's discuss some of the serious effects of Gadgets use.

Speech or language delay.

It's a really surprising fact that spending more time on smartphones, tablets, gadgets can make children delay in expressive speech, because children learn from us, by interection with others, so if they are spending more time with gadgets how they can be on time? because screen-time takes away the time of your children.

Depression.

We all know depression is something that every next person is dealing with, but what about the children? do they have depression? the answer yes and its called "Childhood Depression" as its very common these days, in modern society we always see this in a news or in the newspaper headlines that some children take their gadgets too seriously as they can't live without it, their all happiness depends on the gadgets they are using, somehow become addictive, these are the medical illness, and the child behavior can be noticeable sometimes more worst.

More bad than good

The biggest problem of technology is that it is open to everyone, anyone can watch or search whatever they like so children may use the internet to see adult content then educational websites, which can have a huge impact on their moral value. It won't be wrong to say they become mentally advanced beyond their age.

However coin has two sides, technology has some positive impact on our life as well.

Better Motor skill

You must be thinking about what this motor is all about? well, these skills are connected with our muscles including small movements of lips, wrist, tongue, toes, fingers. so what happens when a child or anyone starts using electronic gadgets or playing or computers, their muscles of small movement get a workout, undoubtedly the healthiest exercise for your children, in the same light I would like to set the example of "Keyboard" or any handheld device as they no risk of injury if using them in a right way.

Boost Your Cognitive Skills

I won't discuss anything technically here, because a lot of us don't know what cognitive skills are like? these skills are the ability to process information, for reasoning, remembering, and co-relating things, objects, and so on, as these all things are directly connected with our memory. No doubt these gadgets and technology have helped us a lot to develop cognitive skills faster and better. There are many mind games what children play not only but all those puzzle games they used to play outside can be played now on gadgets.

Everything has its pros and cons, there is nothing perfect in all sense, the usage of technology in our life should be limited as nothing can replace care, love, and the human touch. Our dearest one the top-most priority not the gadgets