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'Parents, put down your cell phone and pay attention to your children'. Pedagogues, teachers, psychologists ... and even the children themselves, call the attention of parents about the consequences of their abusive use of the smartphone.
Many parents wonder why their children do not leave the cell phone even to go to the bathroom, but they do not realize that this habit has started with themselves. This parental addiction to smartphones It is not only a negative influence on children, but also puts them at risk and insecurity.
The computer or the computer, as well as mobile phones are stealing time from parents, children. A time that is not recovered, that is not 'rewound', that does not return, and in which there are no 'clicks'.
Researchers from the University of Michigan and the State of Illinois, USA, analyzed how many times parents stopped giving care to their children to access the devices. Parallel to that, they observed the behavior of the children.
Almost half of parents said they interrupt activities with their children 3 or more times a day, to be with the mobile phone; just over 1/4 of parents said they interrupted about 2 times, and only 17% said only once. Only 11% of parents said they never interrupted time with their children.
As for the children of parents who abuse the use of such devices, it was observed that they are much more prone to behavioral problems, irritability, hyperactivity and depression, derived from the ‘rejection’ they suffer from their parents. Researchers believe that the constant interruptions generated by messages on social networks, annoy moments between parents and children, when it comes to eating, playing, causing children seek their attention in other ways, with inappropriate attitudes.
The video with a 'social experiment' was made a few months ago, but it is a great example of how children can be at risk, due to the addiction of parents to smartphones. When you are not aware of your children in a park, as that video indicates, anything can happen, even that children are lost or abducted, as is the case. A man offers a child a piece of candy and then invites him to find more candy and the child accepts. Everything happens in a matter of seconds, while the child's father is distracted with his mobile device.
When the parent realizes that their child is not in the park, they start looking for him, and that is when the people who made the video come up and explain how easy it is to steal from a child when the parents are not attentive . Look at the video:
In tribute to Mother's Day, students from a school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, composed a song to draw your attention to how the vice of parents for mobile phones is eliminating moments with their children. The lyrics 'Connected', authored by Daniel Salles, says something like this:
'Turn off, disconnect and slowly come to take advantage of the sunset with me!
Here and now, at that moment, I will share the best file: the time with you!
We lose moments, we spend our lives as slaves of modernity.
In addition to the limits, the mind raves and avoids reality.
It's addictive, dangerous ... and it's so normal!
In the end, whoever has no connection is out, digital illiterate!
Broken ties, broken families, but 4G works.
And people just clicking, but keep losing! '
Technology is a reality that is available to everyone, but like everything else, it needs limits, basic rules on its use. Due to their abuse, we can lose many important things and moments with our children, such as chatting at lunch, at the picnic, playing at home, in the park, at the pool, beach, ... and above all, watching them grow, learn … there is time for everything.
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