Kids and Mobile Phones… A Dangerous Friendship

Now a days we come across kids as young as a year or even younger looking or trying to use mobile phones, listening and watching rhymes and videos on them. Their parents look equally excited that how the baby is learning things so fast and is technologically advanced. Specially in kids younger than teenagers the electronic device is not majorly for calls and messages rather its more for gaming, it can be a 6 year old kid who is an adherent fan of candy crush or a 9 year old who wants to keep playing Minecraft and Roblox with his online friends. Most of the times these online friends are unknown people, but the child feels them real and close than family and relatives present in flesh and blood.

These kids don’t belong to a particular financial class, from rags to riches whoever has a mobile and a kid this kind of friendship blooms. And In a growing country like India the danger of mobile addiction is knocking on almost every door. When the electronic device changes its place from being a communication device and start taking control of the child’s life, his mood swings, his performance in school, his interest in sports and hobbies it’s a parents responsibility not just to get worried but take majors to wean the child off from these digital devices. Read more..