Do Children Have Too Much Screen Time?

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Kids now I days won’t live their full childhood experience. Their days are only going faster as they get older. Time really does go fast when you are wasting your time stuck looking at s screen all day. Over time the internet has increased its popularity and it has become a must in our daily lives; However, to our children, it has negative effects and leads to an unhealthy lifestyle. We want our children to live a worry free adulthood, and by restricting screen time at a young age will fulfill that need. The first thing we look at when we wake up and the last thing when we go to sleep.( if you go to sleep) is look at our phones. Should this be the same with our children? Kimberly Young, a psychologist and professor at St. Bonaventure …show more content…

Having too much screen time and lead your child to and unhealthy lifestyle. When a child is around their pre-teens age they know they have a little more freedom with their internet, but it shouldn’t be a reward for good behavior. If so, they will use that to their advantage and when it is not rewarding they became more demanding and rude to a parent or guardian. It's even worse when a parent gives a child their phone as a reward or to keep them quiet. I have seen this mistake everywhere. A child is running around and is a troublemaker and a parent will give away the phone to the child. As they get older it really only gets harder on the parents restricting internet it will be much easier to binge; However, it will only help the child in the long run. When a child hits teen-age the internet is a need without the internet their lives will be boring. That's why at a young age they need to learn that there are other things to do, and should rely on the internet to entertain them. Another unhealthy reason is that kids will rather be on their phones and to stop and eat something because their phone is too important to set down. I believe vision is also been effect seen kids hold their phone so close to the face. Or when it night all they see is the bright screen flashing their eyes. All those little things maybe not hurt kids at the moment but it will all be affecting as they get …show more content…

It will be the parent's job to be in the look at what the child is doing with the internet that was restringing usage comes to play. “ We should let our teenager build on Minecraft, mess around in Photoshop, and make music in GarageBand”(1) state Chri Bergman founder of an executive of ChoreMonster. I agree with him letting the kids play around with all those cool apps, but sadly and doesn’t just stays there. The kids tend to get bored with repeating the same thing. They will sooner or later be involved with social media. It's crazy to think that 6-year-olds are already involved with social media. All this leads to uploading inoperative photos or chatting with strangers. Like I said kids are very smart and they find ways to hide all that from parents making it hard to actually know what they kid is doing. If you ignore that a child can get in serious trouble like becoming a liar. Obviously, this is hard for both a parent and a child, restricting the internet is so important to a kid nowadays but you will only make them a better person. For now, they won’t like the idea of being restricted I know I didn't. I hate being limited to internet usages. I always wanted to be on my phone. We move forward that the younger kids had the latest phone but when I tried to start a conversation they were all so shy. They had no words coming out, the internet

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