Children's use of Technology: Tips Parents and Guardians can use for Parenting in this Era

 We are in an era, when technology is everywhere. In our day to day activities, technology plays a bigger role in almost all the activities we engage in. Look around you, the screen you are using now to read this article, the environment you are in right now is dominated with technology.

Technology has brought a lot of amazing things to us! and it has also made things quicker and easier for us .But hey! have ever thought of about how this thing has affected todays young generation and parents?, the impact technology has created among the kids is so huge and parents/guardians should consider taking this parenting issue seriously. Some of the negative effects of technology parents should pay attention to are:

Consumption of inappropriate content: Social media has a million of disturbing images, writings and adult content videos that can be consumed by anyone who has access to internet connection. This affects the behaviour and the brain of children as they grow in the society.

Obesity: this may occur due to spending more time indoors on screens rather than playing outside

Depression: Social media has caused many mental illness and depression among teenagers due to peer pressure.

Social skill issues: Technology can lead to more kids being socially awkward. kids being addicted to mobile devices and computers makes them spend less time interacting with others physically.

Reduction in sleep quality: Todays most applications have logarithms that is designed to keep you consuming more and this makes most users to not even have the recommended sleeping hours, this can cause health problems.

These are some of the Tips Parents/Guardians can use for Parenting to curb these Technology Effects on their Kids

Get involved.

In this era, parents tends to spend more time away from their kids, most probably work issues. As a parent you should get involved at least daily in your kids space , to know how they are doing, what are they thinking or facing. Yes that parental warmth will make them not feel lonely and neglected

Restrict and monitor kids browsing web.

Since kid can get access to internet the way they want for example when you are at work, you may not know what exactly they are consuming. Its recommended that as a parent you should take the responsibility of restricting and monitoring the web browser they are using so as to filter adult and graphic content that are available across the internet.

Limit screen time.

Limiting screen time can reduce the amount of time spent on maybe scrolling social media, playing video games, browsing ,and may encourage having a good sleeping schedule. This curbs the issue of experiencing lower sleep quality.

Encourage open communication and education.

As a parent, you should talk to your kids and educate them the risk and the merits of social media. you should encourage them to spend more time hanging out with friends, playing games that involves body exercise, and creating new hobbies with new friends.

Yes we all agree that tech has made our day to day easier, we can both also agree that it affects everyone in the society either positive or negative. You can tell us what you think how parent should play their role in this social media parenting age by leaving a comment below.

article by @jayofficialke