Kids of this age are born with the Internet and from an early age, they handle computers, smartphones, and tablets etc. This means that kids are way smarter than most of the adults today but it is not the complete picture. The risk of excessive consumption of screens by our children is there too such as depletion of memory. Once you get to know of this, the next idea that may come to your mind is how to stop them? Parents, teachers, researchers and we all look at these digital natives, "born with the Internet," as if it were of little green men. We know that the brain can change at high speed, what we do not know is what happens when there is more time for brain recovery.

Risks:

According to the experts, “for kids as young as 2-year, the non-interactive screens (TV and DVD) [...] pose negative effects such as weight gain, speech delay, attention deficit, and nonetheless adoption of passive attitude to the world. And if we talk about the interactive media such as smartphones and tablets etc. having one - console or a personal tablet - before the age of 6 years, means more risks than benefits." Taking the research a bit ahead, experts say that “in teenage, too exclusive use of the Internet can create a thought zapping, depleting memory, personal synthesis of capacity and interiority."

Solution:

To define the middle ground where traditional culture and that of digital mix it is recommended that that you ask your kids to exercise a reflexive awareness of their relationship to the screens and virtual worlds. Teach them the idea of “self-regulation" and once they learn it, you can take help of parental control app that enables you to assist them digitally. With any advanced parental control app such as FamilyTime, you put the access control on their digital devices which means that you schedule an automatic lock for their phone during:

• Homework Time: Schedule an automatic lock for your kid during the study hours.
• Dinner Time: Lock your kids’ devices during the set dinner time
• Bed Time: Restrict the use of digital devices during the night by setting the screen lock for the bedtime with FamilyTime.

You can download FamilyTime for free from your app store or click the buttons below:

Limiting Screen Time is Necessary!

Limiting Kids screen time is necessary if you want to save them from all the risks given above. So, use the parental control app now and help them use the digital devices safely!