The tablets, mobile phones and smartphones are entering increasingly early in children’s lives. All seem to feel attracted by the screens and have an innate ability to interact with digital but this will be more beneficial or harmful habit?
Children’s Day, the News at Minute he asked several experts and child psychiatrists your opinion on the subject and obtained different positions with one thing in common:. the danger is not in the object but in the use made of it
to Nuno Lobo Antunes , a specialist in developmental disorders, “everything that is done with account, weight and measure probably have more benefits than harm.”
“Replace the care of children by the technologies it seems I clearly maladjusted and inadequate, but demonize new technologies seems to me too extremist and retrograde. You can deprive children of tools that can be very useful in your education. “
The parents do not have to keep the little ones to play and watch videos from a mobile device, but should says the psychiatrist, track time and above all the content.
on YouTube, for example, young people are more vulnerable to inappropriate content that they may be suggested right next to children’s videos, so the parental monitoring is needed.
on the other hand, Nuno Lobo Antunes does not believe it is inappropriate interaction with videos or games that are not in Portuguese to because the “early exposure aa a language like English can help later. “
” children who are overly dependent on technology usually have social component of difficulties and it is hard to tell what came first: gone are the games that caused the trend to have more difficulties in social interactions and hence take less pleasure or if this trend has existed, “he says.
” There is always some distrust of previous generations, adults are afraid of what is unknown “because they have grown up with technology, but “are the very kids who choose the way they want to play” and this should be respected, considers the expert.
“in the past also not recommended reading novels to girls because they inflaming the spirit” quips.
According to the pedopsiquatra Ana Vasconcelos tablets and smartphones “ not can be use as a pacifier, that is, as a quick soothing. “
When you try to entertain with these devices a boring child in a restaurant, for example, parents” are making a mess in head of the child. “
” they reward a reaction that is often just a ‘tantrum’, a sign that the child is not to endure frustration, and not with a tablet that will learn to have more resilience to deal with setbacks, but with the relationship with the other “.
Ana Vasconcelos says that both children and adults began to” take comfort themselves with objects “interactive. “Parents can not forget that these technologies can close the children in their world and hamper the development of language and communication,” says.
And it all starts by the example of parents or older siblings. From the moment that the educators do a very frequent use of mobile devices, the use of smaller “is inevitable”, because they “are very appealing objects very early.”
The tablets, smartphones and computers do not have to be banned from children’s lives but their use should be regimented and “weighted”, considers.
“parents have to be an empathic compass and can not abdicate be educators children. A machine does not give affection, gives only distraction and makes the time pass. “
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