Smartphones and it's impact on your Child

I was travelling in a train with a mother and her son right infront of my berth. The boy looked around 5 years. Her mother was trying to feed him with lunch but he was refusing it again and again. The mother finally lured him with the phone and only then the little one agreed to eat his lunch.

I was surprised to see this. Unless the phone was offered, the boy didn't eat. He was then eating and watching some videos calmly while her parents seemed relaxed now. 

I wondered if our younger generation is becoming more techie like this or rather we are spoiling the young minds. 

'You know yesterday he installed a new app on my phone while I was away..', said the mother to her husband with immense pride.

I thought if this was really a thing to be proud of? Though in current days, a smart phone has been the most easy access to almost everybody, including children as well.

My concern was how are these parents controlling the content that their children watch over the internet. I am also stunned to see how parents are over protected about their children. With families becoming more and more nuclear, the entire attention is seeked by the child and hence they could become more demanding but less prepared for the life outside their comfortable homes. Unknowingly, over pampering the child may spoil a tender mind as well.

With internet flooded with various adult content, which requires parental advice, it is very easy for young minds to be directed towards the inappropriate content which might seriously impact their mind.

We all know the future is all about Artificial Intelligence where we initially teach the machines, and then they work based on what we fed them and that they learnt from their developers.

Now compare the same with the young tender minds. What we feed their minds initially with, it is stored forever. Their behaviour, psychology may change with time based on what is being taught and what they have learnt initially.

Now we have smart phones with internet, a beautiful invention yet dangerous if not handled carefully. 

Anyone can access any app which has adult content and it could be extremely violent as well. It does not require any special ticket or access or age bar to watch that content on the smart phones. Moreover parents are busy to keep a watch on what are their children actually watching all the time. 

Earlier when the children had limited options at home, with limited channels to watch on television, phones only to make or receive calls, they had more interest to play outdoor games as well. However now they prefer to stay home and watch games over the phones only. This impacts their natural physical growth, their social behaviour as well.

I wish we had a censor boars soon that monitors of what is being served in webseries now a days. In the name of showing 'reality', they serve extreme violence, sexual content and abuses to hit their audience directly. This leaves a serious impact on young minds. This is what they will learn,  this is what they will behave like and this is what they look forward to become, seeing such content. 

Govt has imposed mandatory National Anthem before start of the movie at any hall. The obscenity is removed from the censor board to serve healthy content to the viewers only. 

But what about webseries? Now webseries are being watched more than movies at the hall and this is actually convenient but dangerous as well. 

If the parents will not have time to monitor what their kids are watching, they are not understanding what impact are they leaving on the tender young minds. 

Like a healthy diet is required for a healthy body, similarly a healthy mind is also required for a healthy psychology..