Study: Parents on Smartphones Often Ignore Kids

For smartphone users, click and slide, the outside world disappears. Journal A shows that their children will gradually disappear when they are on their mobile device.

Researchers at the Boston Medical Center observe parent-child interactions using secret spy styles at fast food restaurants and parents use smartphones and mobile tablets

According to this survey, 40 of the 55 households observed were focused on mobile devices. Nearly a third of my parents use my equipment during meals. Almost three quarters of people use their equipment at least once during meals

Some of the students in this study were eating quietly, but most of the children were uneasy and acted to keep parents' attention away from mobile devices. Some children sing "Jingle Bell, Batman's Singing Song". A child tries to lift his mother's head from the device

The essence of this research is that when using smartphones and tablets, parents neglect their children and negatively interact with them.

So what should parents do? Give up on mobile devices? Of course it is not, we will not come back. This technique is convenient, fun, attractive, and addictive

At any time, it seems like a busy tweet, but work e-mail and Facebook friends are more interesting when eating than to ask homework complaints or episodes of your child's new Dora the Explorer is. But when you put them together, life combined with smartphones will be more empty than life with children.

I tried to solve this technical problem as a parent and as an original psychotherapist by designating a specific time as an indivisible attention time. If you feel that you have to check your smartphone during a meal, ask your child as you know to do this before and after meals. Then set the device

Children are growing fast. When they do, parents will have more time to spend their technical equipment. If the relationship between parents and parents by technology is weak and interrupted, the connection with the child gradually disappears, so more smartphone can be seen.

According to Calgary parenting expert Judy Arnall (creator of child rearing and perseverance), the average age for children to get their first smartphone is about 10 years old. However, exposure to mobile devices usually starts at a young age. It is common for infants to use smartphones for strollers and preschool children in front of restaurant's iPad. Six simple ways to handle child screen time are obvious. Do not use smartphones (or other mobile devices) experts in this age group. In general, for screening time, the Canadian Academy of Pediatrics (CPS) recommends limiting children between 2 and 5 years of age to less than 1 hour a day (screening time for children under 2 years is recommended not). Consistent limitation on media consumption settings

However, some children start using smartphones from a very young age. According to a survey of pediatric societies in the U.S. for children in low-income minority communities in urban areas, almost all children (96.6%) use mobile devices and 75% use their mobile I own the device. Dr. Pamela Rutledge, director of Media Psychology Research Center, said to the Digital Trends, "All children should have a mobile phone unless they are aged." "This is related to maturity of children, which is related to how to use the phone and parents understand how to use their children's phone."