The American Pediatric Association recommended in the book "Nursing Scriptures":
prohibits children under the age of 2 from watching TV;
2-4-year-old children should not watch TV for more than 1 hour a day;
4-8-year-old children watch every day TV time should not exceed 2 hours.
But nowadays, more and more children have grown up watching TV, tablets, and mobile phones. Are electronic products represented by TV really that terrible?
Harvard University has done a series on the impact of TV on children’s brains, and the results found that: TV will cause huge damage to children’s brains, which can be expressed in many ways, especially these 3 points.
language skills
American Academy of Pediatrics researchers have recruited 47 children between the ages of 3-5. The researchers performed MRI scans and language and literacy tests on the children, and asked their parents to fill out a questionnaire. The final study of
found that children who use televisions, mobile phones and other electronic products for more than one hour a day have significantly lower brain white matter development levels than children who are under one hour. (The white matter of the brain is the place where the nerve fibers inside the brain gather, and it has an impact on language, reading and writing, and cognition.) This research proves that TV and other electronic products have children's language ability, including speaking, reading, writing, etc. It has an impact, and severely may cause language development delay.
Concentration
Professor Edward Hallowell, a professor at Harvard Medical School and a well-known child psychologist, discovered when studying the problem of "lack of concentration": everyone’s distraction symptoms can be found in their native family and growing environment The reason, and Internet addiction and multitasking are all related to electronic products such as TV.
did a study at Harvard University in the early years. The study found that the "fast-moving images" and "bright colors" on TV will attract children's attention. Under such long-term and strong stimulation, children will be less sensitive to others. Things with speed, low vividness, and low attractiveness can't be focused.
At the same time, televisions and other electronic products generally have the problem of "information overload". For example, when we read a book, the information in a sentence is limited, and we can also read and understand repeatedly. The brain has enough time to respond, and electronic products can respond every second. In outputting visual and auditory information, the child’s brain has no time to process this information, let alone think deeply. As time goes by, the child’s brain becomes "lazy" and cannot concentrate and think about things for a long time.
Imagination
Harvard University also recruited a group of small volunteers. Researchers divided the children into two groups. One group watched Snow White’s story books, the other group watched Snow White’s cartoons, and then asked the children to tell their minds What is Snow White like?
As a result, the children who read the storybook described Snow White in a variety of ways, full of their own imagination; while the children who watched cartoons described the images in the cartoons uniformly, without their own imagination.
German child psychologists Peter Winterstein and Robert J. Joanweis experimented with similar results. The
researchers divided some 5-year-old children into 3 groups and asked them to draw a person on white paper. The results of the experiment can clearly show that the longer they watch TV, the worse the children’s imagination. How does
make up for the impact of frequent TV watching?
1. Control the use time of TV and other electronic products
To make up for the impact of children's regular TV watching, parents must first control the time their children watch TV and use other electronic products. It is recommended to follow the time recommended by the American Pediatric Association in the article.
If you want to control the time your child watches TV, parents should find better "alternatives" for their children:
1, parent-child interaction (chat, parent-child games)
2, paper games, floor games instead of TV, mobile phone
3, use Sports instead of TV and mobile phones
Among them, paper games are some games that write and draw on paper, such as coloring, drawing, and connecting. Floor games are games that you sit and play (such as building blocks).
2, concentration training
chooses concentration training for two reasons, one isThere are many games that children like very much in concentration training, which are easier for children to accept. Second, concentration training is mostly to improve children's concentration by training the hand, brain, and eye coordination ability, or the brain thinking ability, which can help children Improve multi-dimensional capabilities.
