. The family of three was eating at the dinner table, but no one spoke because the parents were sitting opposite each other, but lowered their heads and playing with their mobile phones. The child sitting in the middle wanted to speak to his parents, but it did not arouse a response from both parties. The advertisement calls on parents to communicate more with their children.
Many parents choose to give their phones or tablets to play by themselves in order to prevent their children from making trouble. As the number of times goes on, the child will gradually become addicted to games. When he can’t get a mobile phone one day, he will cry even more. At this time, adults often choose to give the mobile phone to the child again in order to solve the problem as soon as possible, which forms a vicious cycle. Anders Hansen, the author of
"Mobile Brain", is the chief mental health expert of Swedish , and has won the 2019 Swedish Annual Health Award and the Mental Illness Foundation Award, and was shortlisted for the Best Digital Educator of the Year Award.
He used the book "Mobile Brain" to tell us why children are addicted to mobile phones and how to reduce the harm to children.
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01 Using mobile phone learning is useless to children
Do you know? Apple founder Steve Jobs has changed the way of communication in the world with a series of advanced products, but he restricted his children's use of electronic products. Bill Gates, the world's richest man, also said that itself prohibits children from using their mobile phones before they turn 14.
Many parents want their children to learn useful knowledge through educational TV programs, but many studies have shown that this behavior should at least wait until the age when their children are about to enter school.
Children aged two or three are still too young and often find it difficult to achieve good learning results. Instead, they may learn more in the process of communicating with their parents or others.
For example, if you play with puzzles, adults may think that the difference between playing with the software or playing with the real puzzles is not very big. But for children aged two or three, holding the puzzle directly in their hands not only can exercise finger flexibility, but also enhance children's memory of the shape and material of the puzzle , which cannot be achieved using electronic products.
For example, writing ability, Nowadays, people generally use the keyboard to type. It seems that handwritten notes or words are not good at writing well, but if the object is a child who is still unable to spell the text, they need to practice directly with a pen, which will help improve their spelling ability. Some surveys and studies have shown that children with pens writing and drawing on paper may themselves promote the improvement of reading ability.
02 Mobile phone gradually degrades your self-control
In a certain experiment, give each child a marshmallow and tell him not to eat it first. If you wait for 15 minutes more, you will get two candies. Children who finally successfully complete the waiting task will mostly be more educated and have better careers after decades. The results of this marshmallow experiment tell us that if has self-control since childhood, they may also get more opportunities in life when they grow up. is the ability to delay satisfaction, that is, self-control. This thing is not innate. It is affected by the personal growth environment and can be cultivated through acquired training.
Many studies have shown that people who often use mobile phones in will have more impulsive personalities and are more difficult to delay satisfaction.
There was an experiment like this a few years ago. The research team found several people who had never used their phones, handed them a phone and let them use it. The results three months later showed that the subjects had difficulty in delaying gratification. Decreased ability to delay gratification may make it difficult for us to spend time learning the same thing as we are familiar with. Even if we start learning, it is easy to give up.
The rapid rise of short videos now also conforms to the characteristics of people wanting to be satisfied quickly. It originally took 2 hours to watch a movie, several days to watch a TV series, and one or two weeks to read a book, but now it only takes a few minutes to quickly learn about the movie TV series and the central content of this book.
This quick viewing gives people a constant impetuous atmosphere. It is impossible to calm down and enjoy the wonderful scenes in movies and TV series, and it is difficult to substitute them into movies and TV shows to feel the joys, sorrows, sorrows, and joys of the protagonist.
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03 Mobile phone reduces learning ability
In principle, many schools do not allow students to use mobile phones in class. This is done to allow students to record more knowledge content in class and use a pen to remember the course content.
Now more and more people prefer to read e-books. In fact, when reading , the reading effect of paper books may also be better.
In Norway, some scholars conducted experiments on middle school students. They asked half of the students to read paper books and the other half to read e-books. The results show that despite the same content, students who read paper books in are more impressed by the content of the book, and they especially remember the narrative order of the story.
When reading on mobile phones, the brain needs to spend more energy to resist the temptation of the mobile phone itself, so the learning ability will inevitably decline. It distracted them and was unable to concentrate on reading the text at all.
Studies have shown that children who use their mobile phone for no more than two hours a day have the best academic performance. of course, outside of mobile phones, there are other factors that may affect children. For example, children who fall asleep from 9:00 to 11:00 pm will not only have better grades, but also more energetic.
Children who are prone to getting addicted to mobile phones will unknowingly cause late sleep when looking at mobile phones. In the developmental stage, the time it takes for adolescents to sleep will be longer (9 to 10 hours). If they go to bed late and go to bed early the next day, it will lead to insufficient sleep. Dozing off in class makes it difficult to concentrate on your studies, which leads to a decline in grades.
04 How should children be guided to use their mobile phones normally?
Children aged two or three should stay away from electronic products such as mobile phones and gain knowledge through toys that require manual processing.
htmlChildren under 08 years old should use their mobile phones within 1 hour every day, and children over 8 years old should not use them for more than 2 hours.Do not bring your phone into the classroom, so that you can concentrate on learning.
maintains enough sleep time and does a certain amount of exercise every day. It is more important for parents to set a good example because we are constantly learning in the process of imitating each other, and children will imitate adult actions. Therefore, adults should learn more with their children. They can choose to read books or learn interactively when their children are studying.
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