Multimedia Kids Spend 7 Hours A Day With Gadgets

Kids

oi-Staff

By Super Admin

Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 17:17

The multimedia generation spends nearly seven hours a day with their smartphones, iPods, TVs and video games.

A research, carried out by the Kaiser Family Foundation in the United States, discovered that youngsters aged between eight and 18 are always using one or the other electronic device when they are not in school.

Some use more than one device at a time and consume over 10 hours of electronic content each day.

The “electronic life" of children has exploded in the last five years because portable devices have completely changed the way children access television programmes, films and music.

The findings of the study have upset child welfare experts. “It"s a very sad state of affairs and I hope the research will be a wake-up call for the parents. As far as some people are concerned these devices have become like an opiate designed to keep children quiet," says a child psychologist and founder of the child welfare charity, Kidscape.

When children are using electronic devices they are not communicating or interacting with anyone else. They may be very good at texting but they are very poor at meeting people face to face.

Its high time parents should consciously limit the amount of time young children spend using electronic media. Excess use of gadgets have a negative effect on a child's health, emotional wellbeing and health,social skills,video games,well being.