Vigilant, Gadgets Make Child Adult Before Time

Not only adults, young children are now already know, have, even adept at using gadgets. The gadget does have features that can make children addicted to continue to play. Among these are the features of games and social media applications that can be accessed anytime.

In the book "Educating Children in the Digital Age" which was written by a psychiatrist and a leading children's education practitioners in Korea, Yee-Jin Shin, explained that parents provide their children with a digital device or gadget nowadays tends to mean well in order to facilitate communication and children can access information from the Internet with ease. However, in reality the use of gadgets in children uncontrolled negative impact on child development.

"Children have the curiosity and wonder that is stronger than adults. So, if there are new items of interest, they will quickly enamored with the goods. They become less able to control themselves. It makes them difficult to control boost there. That's the reason that is harmful to children, "Obviously Yee-Jin Shin like dikutipdetikHealth of his book and was written on Friday (10/17/2014).

Games and social media is a feature that is considered to be the most worrying for personal and child development. Online games are more often played by boys for instance, tends to make children become addicted to the exclusion of subjects, even when counseled against her parents.

So is the case with social media, children can freely express anything through status updates. Because uncontrolled, resulting in many cases of child abduction lately due to social media and cases of bullying due to the updated status and so on.

"When playing games, children feel more confident because they can control their avatar at will. While in the real world, they tend not to feel confident. In addition, there is one thing that escaped the attention of children who are addicted to social media. In the media it, they do not care about the feelings of others because they can not share a sense, "Yee-Jin Shin Papar.

The influence of such gadgets that make the stages of child development becomes chaotic. Physically, it might not look as children grow normally and physical well. However, psychiatric and mentally they are not as mature as the physical. By doing so, they will become a person who lacks confidence and is not sensitive to the surrounding environment.

"We have to keep children away from the influence of digital devices. They will survive if we soon realize it. You have to know exactly what the impact of digital devices so you will find a good reason to control its use in children," said Yee -Jin Shin.