Basically gadget made are to help facilitate a job. The work that was at first only be done on the desk with a set of computer, now it can be done more flexibly, for example: it can be done outside the home while accompanying children to play. By using a smartphone or tablet, it is possible to access the internet anywhere you are and anytime.
The ease in doing work with the help of these gadgets sometimes be a trigger parents to immediately introduce a gadget in children as early as possible. Especially if the parents who are not yet familiar with a lot of gadgets. They assume that if their children can not use the gadget regarded as clueless and embarrassed with the neighbor's children everywhere bring gadgets to play the game.
Many parents are unaware that their children have started to be addicted to this gadget. Many parents consider as mediocre and even if they're not like it they're deemed outdated. Actually, there are dangers that if your children are addicted to gadgets like this. Gadget addiction can interfere with your child's physical and psychological, for example, children no longer sensitive to the surrounding environment, lazy to spell out something, hard to get thinking and lazy to socialize with friends.
As a parent or participating regard development of the child should be concerned with the condition that more and more children are addicted to this gadget. The exact steps is how to fix it. Here are some ways to overcome addiction in children gadgets that you can try.
1. Encourage Children to Play Outside Home
When children are invited to play outside the house without gadget, then the child will be forgotten with gadgets and sidetracked to interact with the surrounding environment.
Outside the home, children can navigate to play ball, jump rope, marbles, or else more enjoyable. Although it was a fun toy cultivated also involve the physical education and sports. Thus in addition to the child to be happy and excited, also become smarter and healthier.
2. Set Free Day Gadget
Free day gadget can be defined by yourself in communicate with your children. If not able to do a gadget-free day, you can do it gradually by reducing piecemeal over time the use of gadgets in children. Be persistent with this effort until your child suddenly felt had been able to leave their gadgets all day long
3. Give the busyness of Interest
Childhood is a time of a lot of activity. No child just shut themselves without much activity. Furthermore, doing many activities can support the development and growth in children.
Hence, give your child more helpful and charming. With a fun and interesting activity then child will be comfortable to live.
4. Have Children Socializing with Their friends
Socializing with his friends in the play can shift gadget habit in children because children will be more focus on interacting with his friends in the play.
5. Give Reward
Reward can be a trigger for the success of a plan that is already running. Your child will be tempted to acquire it when the reward you offer valuable and interesting for them. In order to remain attractive reward then reward you offer should be something new.
6. Be a Role Model in Children
Child is an accomplished impersonator on their parents. So child is a mirror of both parents. What do the parents would be well followed by the children.
Therefore, as parents in using the gadget should only as needed. Avoid the habit of little always holding a gadget, every five minutes or so to open facebook, twitter, BBM and WhatsApp.
7. Do not Give Kids Gadgets
Before you buy a gadget on your child, needs to carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages of it. If the benefits are more than the loss of your child, then you can buy the gadget. If that lots of disadvantages, you should be firm to forbid it.
8. Strive, Consistent and Continuous
Efforts to eliminate old habits is to earnestly and should be carried out continuously (without stopping). As well as the smoking habit that needs much effort to do it again.
Once you are inconsistent means the same as an opportunity to return to your old habits. Moreover, a child who is still unstable in the mindset, so you as parents should always monitor, guide and direct continuously.
9. Expand the Time Communication with Children
To communicate with, the child will feel cared for and when experiencing problems can be directly expressed to parents so that the child can find the right solution.
If the child does not get the right solution most children make the gadget as a solution to resolve the problem. This is a step that is not appropriate. This is not to solve the problem but will only increase the burden of the problem.
10. Encourage Active Kids for Various Activities
With the number of busyness in various activities, children will be less and less time for holding the gadget. So the opportunity to play gadget is getting narrower.
11. Make Time Limitation Rule Using Gadget
Make a time limit on the child when playing gadget. This time you can define arbitrarily. For example in a day gadgets are only allowed to play for one hour. It is important to note here is discipline in honor of rules for all family members.
12. Don't Often Gives Gadget to Children
Give your child an understanding of the fact that the gadget is not only a toy but also a tool to help facilitate a job.
13. Gives Gadget on Children Still Too Small
Children who are still too small it would be nice given the toy apart gadget or toy that resembles the gadget. It is as habituation to the child in order not familiar with gadgets as toys everyday.
14. Take the Gadget to Guarantee the Control of the Content.
This as done by FireKids Tablet with Amazon FreeTime. Children were introduced to comply with the rules relating to the content, such as determining how long they can watch movies, play games, and how long they learned from the application of learning
15. Take the Gadget with the Service Profile and Password.
This service allows you to prevent children from getting content appropriate to their age. And one tablet recommended many parents to this issue is the FireKids Tablet.
16. Provide Alternative Toy addition Gadget
When it is given a ban for playing gadget, you as parents have to provide solutions as an alternative to replacement toy gadget. For example you can pass the ball, doll house, shooting gun, car track playset, or even a quadcopter drone. This meant that not putting creative ideas for children.
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