I saw a lot of families have their children playing with the devices in the house, not hang out or doing any outdoor activities other than using the technology. I found that that’s not the good way to educate their children. When children focus too much on screen, they become lazy to do exercises, start to neglect to go outside or anywhere except their home just to play or watching video on screen.

in my opinion, children lack of exercise will have their physical stamina on low level, they will become very weak, also lack of knowledge about outside, fresh air, making friends, etc… This issue may cause the children to become unsocial to other people, locking themselves into their own “space” that keep them distance from anything else.

I have seen a lot of parent’s concern toward this problem. there is a video talk about technology that affect children from going outside and doing outdoor activities in the link below:

From the video, it tell us about what media& technology can affect our children in modern days. one thing that really get my attention is that she speaker talked about the impacts that children could have toward their development. “One is if your child playing on video games, watching TV, not outside on a playground and are not engaging with their friends, then they are not playing and they should be“; ” Two is that the impact that these toys have on your child can be significant because it’s a lot of input “. I’m totally agree with the speaker. By making friends, children will learn to be socialize with other people, also spend time playing outside also helps the children to improve their physical condition, help them doing some exercises and encourage them to play in the park so they could improve their imaginations and be creative on what they are doing.

I know i’m still young, but i understand, emphasize and share my concern to other parents as well and i hope after you read my blog it can help you be more careful raising children and prevent any disadvantage may happen to the children for their better future.

In my earlier blog, i mentioned 1 of the negative side of technology that affect children and their behavior is addictive. There’s also another negative that affect the children the it could harm them in physical way.

By spending too much time look at the screen monitor, children might have their eyes suffer the blue light from the screen, and might lower their eye sight, force them to wear glasses to support their vision, just like the picture below about children spend their time look at the phone screen even he suffered low vision and wearing glasses.

Also, children use the devices and play the video with loud sound can also affect to their hearing ability as well.

From what i know, i have suffered low eye vision from watching television too much that result me wearing glasses the whole time as a child. so i’m sharing my concern to every parents that are worrying about their children’s health.

To me, children’s health condition is at risk if parents don’t show their concern toward their children. This might getting worse if children spend way too much time on the cellphone or tablet. there will be chance that children may suffer blindness and deaf because of the technology.

To all parents, please show your concern toward your children, prevent them from suffering any decease, or any disadvantage that regards to children’s health.

There are some articles about the same concern from other people as well

Screen Time Can Be Dangerous for Kids’ Mental & Physical Health

https://www.consumerreports.org/children-s-health/is-technology-harming-kids-eyes-and-ears/

The other post I’ve already talked about the benefits that technology can affect to children if they interact in young age. But everything has their other side, like a double-edge knife. Children using technology can result negative behavior toward their parents when they are not being under supervision.

Please spend some time to watch this video below about 1 of the negative behaviors that i’m very concern about children 😦

What do you think about this video? i bet some of you have the same situation right?

This video above is about kids that spend too much time on using the table/iPad and show their tantrum, screaming and crying over their devices being taken by their own parents. some of the kids were enjoy using the tablet in joy but emotion changed when their parents took the device back.

For my opinion, this is a negative side of letting children using technology devices. If we let our children using the technology devices for too long and not doing any other activity in person, it will form a bad habit to the children. The children will become too dependent on that device, they will become lazy. If is get worse, the children might find themselves addicted to the technology devices. they will never stop using the device, never take their eyes off the monitor screens, start to neglect to do anything else. when the device got taken away, the children will show their tantrum, upset, might do something foolish in order to make their parents give them back the technology device.

From what i see, if parents don’t control their children’s usage time on technology device, their children will show their bad behaviors toward their parents. If this problem still happen, it will cause a serious issue among the families. what i suggest is parents should control the time their children using the devices, at the same time spend time with their children, even use the technology device with them to show them something new, something interesting that might caught the children’s attention, not just give children the device and leave them be and do your own thing. Parents should support each other and it will help their children learn about the risk that they might suffer and prevent them from this problem to continue to next generation.

Technology has been developed so much more advanced these days. Now i see that most of young parents are exposing the children to the electrical devices. I can see that parents use the advantages from the technology devices to educate their children. I also read this article about what advantage, benefits that technology can help children.

https://digiparenthood.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/10-benefits-of-exposing-young-children-to-modern-technology/

This article above tells us about 10 benefits of exposing young children to modern technology. Most of the benefits mentioned were catching my interest, actually i’m impressed with those.

I’m agree that technology can help children “Improve Language Skills”. As you know children mostly are very curious, so that their parent takes that opportunity to use technology device to open the application that support their language skill like eBook, Kindle and other “book” or “education” application. For my opinion, this is an ethical way to educate children. Because there are lots of book that maybe very old to store in physical up to this time, so that they could store those book “online” and believe they might contain valuable resources that might reach their children’s interest, also improve their language skill as the resource the “ebook” provides

There’s another benefits which i really agree with is “Develops Problem Solving Skills“. according to this article, they said that “younger children are more interested in the short terms of games which are essential in problem solving“. By allow the children to play puzzle/ quiz games will help children improve their problem solving skills and children will learn how to respond and solve the problem when they might in trouble, also improve their knowledge, trigger their curiosity toward asking questions and learning. For my opinion, i totally agree. When i was 10 years old, technology started to be developed. My older brother showed me a puzzle games which require focus to get the best score, and reveal the lore and history upon finish the puzzle level . That puzzle game helps me improve my focus ability more sharper and i got chance to learn about history from different country that showed in that game. for my suggestion that most of parents, especially young parents should use this method to raise their children.

From this article, i can also add another benefits for letting children use technology device is it helps children to open their eyes, find their talents in the future. Why? Because there are some of videos that might catch children’s interest that they will crave into it and it will be their stepping stone to form a dream that they will achieve in the future, give them hope, give them motivation to step forward. Even i the example of proving this benefit from the technology. When i was about 12 years old, i watched the movie “Ratatouille” on TV. The movie is about a mouse that have passion in cooking, even thou there are difficulties in his situation but he still keep the passion alive with him. After watched the movie, i set for myself a dream that in the future i want to be a chef, to cook lots of delicious food for other people. Up until now i’m currently studying Culinary Management in Niagara College and still have my passion alive inside my heart.

I hope that young parents can use the technology ethically that it may help your children in the future and be a wonderful person in the future.

Nowadays , technology is getting developed much more advance, and also there are lots of people becomes wealthy. almost all people of the entire world are using smartphones and more advanced device like iPad, smart TV, etc.. Now there are lots of families are letting children using these technology devices in very early ages.

I read this article about the statistics on children use of TV, internet and videos by Dr Brent Conrad and i found that very interesting.

http://www.techaddiction.ca/media-statistics.html

According to this article, the writer mentioned “66% of all children under the age of two have watched television“, “11% children under eight old use a cellphone, iPod or iPad/tablet“. From what i see, that’s a huge number of children that currently using technology devices. Those number i believe it will increase day by day, and might reach the alert number that government will notice and share their concern about this problem. 66% of all children, that is not a small number at all, its over half of the children in the world, not just in 1 country. I also concern about the age of children using technology devices, parents nowadays even let infants start watching television at 9 months old, that’s too early.

Not just the number of children, their time spent on these advanced device makes me feel much more worrisome. “Children under two have a screen average of 53 minutes per day” . Hello? 53 minutes per day for an infant to spent on watching television? That’s is way to dangerous.

My mother told me when i was very small, my parents never let me watch television or using any of technology devices because it might damage my eye visions, also could makes me become lazy. Instead of that, my parent often hang out with me more often, bought me toys that i can play with.

I think young parents nowadays should follow the same way like their parents used to do when they have children: spend their time with their children more often, take their children to the park so the children can make friends, reduce the children’s time spending on technology devices so that the number of children using technology might decrease, and children can learn much more thing other than from what they see on screen.

Last week, i went to my friend’s house for a visit. When i arrived at their house, i saw their son was watching Youtube videos on the iPad. After 2 hours, i started to prepare to go home, i saw the kid was still watching the iPad without resting, and no sign of exhaustion.

The picture above is an example that similar to what i saw in my friend’s house when i looked at their son. the kid was so focus on the iPad screen that he didn’t even care what’s going on around him. The way he looked at the screen , his eyes were wide open, and they were very close to the device screen. The boy wasn’t care whats going on outside, neglecting to do anything else.

WHY am i writing this blog post?

Because i understand the parent’s purpose of letting their children use technology devices, also in the same time i worry the children may suffer different negative effects from using modern technology .

I’m writing this blog not to prevent parents letting their children using technology devices, i’m just showing my concern about this topic so that parents can understand my point of view so that they can think what is best for their children .

Hi,

My name is Trung Hieu Hoang

I’m currently a student in Niagara College, Canada

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Most of my post in here are about family problems and issues that every parents are concerning about their children. I hope you enjoy reading my blog xD

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