In contemporary society, smartphones and other electronic gadgets have penetrated into people's lives, especially for children. However, the question of whether or not to expose children to mobile phones from an early age is highly debated. Some parents believe that letting their children play with their phones from an early age will help them access information and improve their intelligence, while others are concerned that it will have a negative impact on their children's development. This article will ** the gap between playing with mobile phones and not playing with mobile phones from an early age for children, and explain why children should not be exposed to mobile phones from an early age.
Studies have shown that children who play with mobile phones from an early age often have deficiencies in language skills. For example, in the clinic of a children's health center, Wang Jianhong, deputy chief physician, often sees children with language delays. Among them, there is a 4-year-old child who can only occasionally utter a few short sentences and barely speaks the rest of the time. After a series of investigations and tests, the doctor found that the child would use his mobile phone for three or four hours a day when he was less than a year old. The results showed a clear correlation between children's language development and early use of electronic devices. This shows that children who play with mobile phones from an early age are addicted to electronic screens and cannot get appropriate language stimulation, which affects language development. Therefore, in order to cultivate children's good language skills, parents should try to avoid letting their children touch mobile phones from an early age.
Frequent use of electronics can also cause damage to your child's eyes. Studies have found that staring at a phone screen for long periods of time can lead to eye strain, fatigue, and dryness, which in turn can lead to vision loss. In one study, children who played with their phones for 20 minutes saw an average loss of 438 degrees. For example, there is a three-year-old boy in Dongguan who started playing with his mobile phone when he was one year old and plays for hours every day. As a result, the myopia of this young child has reached 775 degrees. This phenomenon proves once again the damage that early exposure to electronics can do to children's eyes. Therefore, in order to protect the child's vision health, parents should limit the time their children use electronic products as much as possible.
Another gap due to playing with mobile phones from an early age is that children are easily distracted. Studies have shown that children who are accustomed to dynamic and stimulating light and shadow screens have a hard time concentrating in a bland and static reality. This explains why some children tend to lose concentration and even suffer from ADHD when they go to school. Such children often perform poorly in their studies or are even marginalized. Therefore, parents should guide their children to be moderately exposed to real life and avoid over-reliance on electronic products.
Although mobile phones and electronics play a pivotal role in today's society, parents should be wise about deciding whether their children will be exposed to these devices from an early age. Children who play with mobile phones from an early age often have significant gaps in language skills, visual health, and concentration. Therefore, we should minimise children's exposure to electronic devices and encourage them to interact with the real world, so as to promote their all-round development.
Through the influence of children playing with and not playing with mobile phones from an early age, I deeply realized the importance of keeping children away from electronic products. As parents, we should keep in mind that children need adequate social interaction, physical exercise and mental development in the process of growing up. Therefore, although electronic products provide convenience to our lives, in the education of children, we should appropriately limit the time they spend using electronic products, guide them to communicate more with others, participate in more outdoor activities, and let them grow up healthily. Only by protecting the physical and mental health of children can they have better development and success in the future society.