“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
Michael Levine.
Kids’ brains are so just like fresh clay that can be molded in the ways you wish. Your child is the replica of your thoughts. Kids usually need love; care and attention that parent in today’s age are unable to give because of their hectic schedule. Children often crave for their parents attention and parents try to fulfill their materialistic needs shedding away from their responsibility.
Just providing them with materials in not enough they need to check on their kids routines. When parents don’t get time for their kids they provide them with latest toys and gadgets which will keep them occupied. But they forget that in this process they are detaching their kids and then they grumble that our kids don’t have time for us. Where did even parents have time for their kids?
Teenage is the phase where a child needs their parents. They are in such phase of their life that they need to share all the new things happening with them in high school. And when they don’t find their parents around them they tend t o some other sources. Gadgets being one of the biggest revolutions on the earth have fascinated them to such a extent that they have forgot the real world. They don’t even need their parents when they have the latest gadgets in their pockets
But gadgets have proved a greatest health hazards to the kids. Scientifically and psychologically it has proved that these gadgets bring piles of problems with them.
Health hazards of gadgets on kids:
Obesity:
Usually children go mad with kind of gadgets that are available in markets. And as result if it they just forget that there is world that exist around them. Their life revolves around that gadget which is very dangerous in many aspects. All this gadgets just make them sit at one place, and when they tend to loose in any games or they are talking on cell phones their body craves for more food. They sit at one place and they keep on eating. Well it would have definitely not a problem if they would have grabbed some nutritious food but usually they fog much of junk food, chocolates and cheese cubes. These are the whole and sole reason of obesity.
Obesity is the widely spread problem. It is actually major problem which looks very minute when we keep on neglecting. Parents play a huge role in making the kids gadget savvy. As many times just to avoid question of kids or their professional life makes them so busy that they substitute their presence with providing gadgets to kids. No doubt that kid has to walk with the existing technology revolution in order to beat the competitive world behind. But I guess when a child is at home he should spend a quality time with the family instead of parents chatting in one room and the kid playing on internet or watching TV in another room.
It’s not the child who is culprit; we are the ones who are the real cause of our child’s obesity. It is just that obesity means having some extra weight which some kids usually concludes that belong to wealthy family. And extra weight definitely doesn’t mean extra health. It is just means that we are troubling our body by flooding everything extra amount.
There are innumerous problems that a child faces due to obesity:
- At the very first rate as the body consumes a heavy amount of fats and that too insoluble fats that is present in junk food it increases the level of cholesterol near the heart area causing early age heart problems in kids.
- They develop problems in their joints and spinal cord.
- Due to obesity the level of hormones gets imbalanced which cause hypertension and especially in girls causing headaches, heavy bleeding in menstrual problems, irregular menstrual problems.
- And as the level of pressure in blood increases it is the main reason your kids suffer from major illness.
Insomnia:
It is just not that they lead to major illness but it is also the major reason for insomnia. The impact of the gadget is so bad that they even forget to sleep and even they go to bed they keep on thinking only about gadgets.
It hammers that part of brain which triggers sleep. Using a lot of gadget actually makes the kids unable to sleep.
The gadget makes lowers down the heart beat of the kids.
No doubt that this devices are as small as some packets but they have this harmful pulse sensor which actually destroy the entire system of the heart effecting you the blood vessels which causes a huge amount of restlessness in kids.
Usually children don’t realize when the time passes by while they are watching TV, playing video games and talking on cell phones.
Disaster to their study:
Cell pones are the greatest disaster to their studies. Nowadays it is a trend to keep on calling a friend and ask for the entire night whether they have wind up the studies.
This actually increases anxiety in kids as any of their friend is ahead of them then instead of trying to finish their own work they keep on getting nervous that my friend have a finished and I am still hanging their itself. This finally results in bad grades.
Then again a huge time is just wasted on calling friends and again receiving their calls.
SMS has caused the biggest damage to the structure of language. English is such a beautiful language but they have bought this sms language have messed up the entire beautification of language. Apart from these kids learn this language very quickly and use this abbreviation so frequently that they actually forget the real spell of that word. Nowadays many of the kids even use it in examinations in an attempt to wind up the answers quickly.
And when the grades arrive, they actually keep wondering what we did……..
Besides, internet is growing so fast that it has solution to all problems and that too very quickly without investing time. But this is making them apart from the real hard work. They have started to avoid reading books as the required info is all available on the internet makes their work very easy.
But parents don’t realize that making them addicted to internet is actually like providing them with the short cuts to success. This way they will always try to find short cuts in every aspects of life.
And as the internet provides good speed their life has become so speedy that they forgot the name of patience. It makes them so restless which usually creates mess. Patience is the most important factor in the life but usually in early age kids possess a huge amount of restlessness so instead of developing their patience we add more to their restlessness.
When your child is on computer if it tend to function improper they actually get so agitated that they turn violent. Kids frequently loose patience.
Above all spending a lot of time on computer damages your back to the greatest extent. Apart from their back, shoulder, forearm and hand are the biggest suffers.
Using finger for longer time make them tired and causes a nerve problem.
There are actually many more problems that are harmful to their health. But these problems can be solved very easily and beautifully.
Involve your child with the outdoor activities like playing outdoor games, hand over them some small responsibilities which keep them occupied and will also make them responsible.
Likewise let them get some groceries from market. Even you can accompany them which will help you spend some good time with them. And please don’t drive them to veggie market. Walk with them, this will be a good exercise for them as well as it will be good way to increase quality communication between them. And it will increase their intake of fruits and veggies in their diets.
Try to make them read books for their projects instead of totally relying on the internet. Books teach to be patient in life. You can even suggest some books that you have read and share some discussion on it. This way your kid will start sharing with you. Try and shop out for books with them.
As much as possible try and have dinner with them and have long walk with them after dinner. You can actually offer them for ice cream sometimes on walk.
Join some yoga clubs or gym with them so they are refrained from gadgets.
Make them aware of the hazards of the gadgets that may ruin their health system. Never compare your child to any another child but make them feel special and let them know their health is major concern for you.
I guess whatever solutions are recommended don’t even one third of the pennies that you waste on those stupid gadgets. Love your kids they will turn into good human beings. And love you more than anything else in the world.
