It's dinner time and you are struggling to prepare for dinner and your kids are running here and there through out the house. You have 2 choices. The first choice : You ask the kids (maybe shout a little) to sit down and play their toys or do some colouring or whatever except running as it is dangerous because they might knock on things or they might fell down or bump into things and get hurt. The second choice : You give them an Ipad. You do not have to ask them what to do with it. They KNOW what to do with an Ipad. Trust me.
For a more conservative parents, they tend to choose the first choice to control their children. For modern and gadget believer parents, an Ipad is like their best friend to control their kids. Lets talk more about this, shall we?
When you tend to choose Ipad to pacify your whining kids when you are about to eat dinner or the kids are just too noisy when you are about to have a quiet time, lazying around the sofa after tiring day at work, did you realised that all that missing is the bonding between parents and children. The moment you pass an Ipad to the children to control them, the communication just stop right there. The parents enjoy their time, the children is busy playing with their Ipad. Where's the personal touch? Please do not blame the kids when they spend less time with you when they have grow up as you are the one who trigger that particular problem.
I am not an Ipad nemesis as I love Ipads! I will give my kids to play an Ipad maybe twice a week for 30 minutes a session. What i concern is a one little child or a baby is given an Ipad by the parents just to make them calm and quiet. Due to different characteristics family background of the children, in some cases there will be addiction. Children may become dependent on Ipad so that they may depressed if someone take away their Ipads. Another likely psychological problem is autism. The more time they spend on Ipad,the less they'll have with family and friends. Childhood is the most important period to practice how to communicate with and care for others. They may not be autistic in the end but their communication skills may be very poor.
Being a gadget fan and a believer is not a crime but in matter of raising a child, let's back to basics. Watch and learn from our mother what she has taught us on the good old days. Look how well we turned out now and there must be a hack of great and fun ways to raise our kids without let the technology takes control on our children.
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