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SHOULD YOU REALLY BE BUYING YOUR CHILD

THAT IPAD THEY WANT THIS CHRISTMAS?
The Detrimental Effects
Technology Is Having on Your
Precious Child
The world we live in today is
becoming overrun by technology not
only by adults and teenagers but also,
young children. It may seem like a
good idea as a parent to just throw
your two-year-old a tablet to occupy
them as you are doing tasks
throughout the day. However, this
convenient distraction has many
negative effects on your children. A
prime negative effect is the damage in
the development of social skills.
Meaning their ability to use proper
manners, making friends in person,
speaking to adults, control of
emotions and polite language to name
a few. While these children are
consumed in their electronics, they
get put inside a bubble, isolated from
the interreacting world. This leads
these children to lack good
Now instead of going outside after school to play with their neighbor’s, your kids are
communication and conversational
automatically coming home and jumping on their devices. Not only does technology
skills along with listening and eye
have a negative effect on the social skills and physical being of your child but also on
contact. Not to mention these kids
their health and the development of their brains. Jim Taylor, Ph.D., wrote in Psychology
may have a hard time identifying
Today that heightened technology exposure might actually be changing the way
social cues and automatically turn to
children’s brains are wired. This is because the child’s brain is still developing unlike an
their phones in order to avoid an
adult. Since these children are experiencing technology at higher rates their brains are
awkward social situation.
potentially adopting an internet approach to thinking.

What this means is their brains are scanning and processing sources of Another negative effect on their
health is our sleeping. Children and
information. Technology has altogether changed human physiology. It changes
teenagers are used to falling asleep
the way we think, feel, dream, our memory attention span, and sleep cycles.
with their laptops, iPads, phones
This is because of a scientific phenomenon, neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is glowing by their side which messes
the brains ability to change its behavior due to new experiences. up their sleep patterns.
Neuroscientists are beginning to
believe that this glowing light
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hormones.
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Our eyes are extremely communicate and decreases their
sensitive when it comes to HAVE YOU GIVEN connection. Human beings
these blue lights and makes especially young children need
it harder for children to fall YOUR BABY YOUR this connection that impacts
asleep. Also, these attachment. As a child they build
radioactive rays are PHONE? the necessary social and emotional
harmful in the sense that it A study recently conducted skills through playing. This play
can lead to eye fatigue, has discovered that by the age creates an opportunity for
blurry vision, and focus of one more than one third of emotional experience between the
Ever wonder why your child issues. On top of that social parent and child. These devices
has a hard time going to babies have touched or
media along with the scrolled the screen of a device disturb these interactions and
sleep before bed. Maybe its internet are shortening reduces the in-person interactions.
because of the specific and that by the age of two
kids’ attention spans and John Bowlby, a British
bright light can literally fool years old over half have
makingit hard to read psychologist and psychoanalyst
your children’s brains to books for long periods and
scrolled screens, watched a TV
who believed that early childhood
think that it is still daytime just skim. This is troubling show on the device. Young attachments played a critical role
which effects the body’s especially for younger children being exposed to in later development prosed that
circadian rhythms. Not only children because they fail these devices impacts them “a child needs a parent who is
does this light effect your to develop concentration mentally and physically. intimately, physically, and
childs sleep but also their skills. emotionally engaged with them.”
eyes. He states we need the parent-
infant attachment.
Attachment which is formed in the earliest stages of our youth shape us.
Research has proven that sensory and face-to-face experience is vital in the
process of molding children’s brains and providing the social and emotional
competencies. A parent’s sensitivity to their child such as calming a crying baby
with rocking, smiling when a child makes eye contact, playing peek-a-boo or
patty cake is extremely important for the child’s social-emotional and cognitive
development. Ultimately, the use of technology interferes with the bond of your
child. This is because the time you spend on your device limits the time you
could spend with your child participating in other activities which therefore
messes with the attachment relationship.

Even having background
TV playing negatively
interferes with the
interaction of their child.
This is due to a lack of
attentiveness, being
engaged, and lack of
speaking to their child.
Furthermore, as parents
multitask this reduces
productivity and therefore
the lack of attention.
Radesky, Developmental
Behavioral Pediatrician
found that when parents
are caught up in their
technology, they ignore the
child. Another study has
proven that television
results in these children
spending mass amounts of
time alone instead of
interacting with their
parents. All of the use
between the child and
parent is affecting the
attachment and the bond
necessary negatively and is
diminishing the emotional,
cognitive, and social
development of the child.
Although technology can be used
as a tool to create, connect and
learn, overusing it can cause
problems for your young children
as their minds are still developing.
Perhaps with moderation the
harms of technology may be
minimized. However, knowing
how much damage these addictive
devices can cause as a parent you
must ask is it worth all health
risks mentally and physically, the
behavioral issues, irregular sleep,
the loss of social skills
…probably not. So think twice
this holiday season should I really
be buying my child an Ipad?