The Impact of Interactive Technology on Your Child

Your Child’s Obsession With the Interactive Technology Will Tell You about His or Her Actual Need

Is Interactive Technology Good For Little Kids?

Each and every new advancement in media technology brings us waves of angst and excitement.

Tablets and smartphones are ruining childhood. That’s entirely not true, wait — scratch that. TV actually dumbs down our children’s morals. Simply no, hang on. Comic books are corrupting the little learner’s morals. Completely disagree, hold up. Textbooks are destroying the power to remember.

Wait-back up a bit. We don’t want our kids to have been painting on paint on cave walls instead of just listening to the elders recite stories by the bonfire.

The potential of making use of new tools to enhance our daily life is balanced with the concern about what each and everything is doing to change us individually and culturally.

Considering the fact, children and youth are often early and enthusiastic adopters of interactive media and new technologies. Our concerns are amplified partly because of generational snobbery and also because of protectiveness.

Today’s kids are spending the majority of their time watching television, playing on tablets, and watching Youtube videos on smartphones. We surely consider our childhood better without the influx of the latest technologies. Take, for example, the need for a child to understand how to do things appropriately.

Whatever it is, whether it’s throwing a ball, trying a shoe, playing marbles in the mud, these experiences help a child to feel proficient.

Erik Erikson, a child development theorist, has clearly described a stage — “industry versus inferiority stage” — at the ages of 5, children feel more confident in their own abilities.

Making use of technologies to mastering them is an expert fashion to demonstrate the child’s new talents. Such opportunities are crucially vital for the children who do not seem to be effective at the things their parents want them to be better at.

Also, take into account that sometimes children want to be in a world of their own invention, or if they can’t invent, then they want a world of at least their choice. Most of the children want to be in a world without expectation, demand, management, or support; they simply want to be on their own.

There is particularly no simple answer for finding a healthy life balance, but all you have to do is a simple approach: join your child, for a minute, for even ten minutes — whatever the time you can spare.

You can ask them to show what they are doing; you should sit with them as they play or watch them, observe them. You will clearly get the glimpses of underlying the need that drives the outward behavior.

Thank you:)