PROTECT YOUR CHILD FROM CELLPHONE ADDICTION!

Children and addictive level of cellphone use!

Parents! Please take the cellphone away from your children and stop this addiction immediately. Give yourself permission to act like a parent. It is our responsibilities as school educators and parents to set boundaries and protect our children from this fast growing addiction. The amount of hours children spend on their cellphone is becoming out of control and creating social, emotional and physical problems.

Why is it alarming? Parents are too tired to deal with their own child’s behavior, they want to keep them entertained and pretend that their kids are learning something new! They resort to the instant gratification by giving the child the cellphone device and get addicted early on.

Research shows that teens who prefer virtual to real life communication tend to have more anxiety and even depression. You see children on their cellphone practically everywhere. Home, school, public places, malls, planes, cars, etc… they can’t even keep their eyes off the stimulation of colours and movement.

Silicon Valley companies like Facebook and Google know this, and they have increasingly been turning to the field of applied neuroscience to see how exactly brains respond to color in the apps, what brings pleasure and what…