Text/CEO of Lin Yueqin Jingyu Foundation

There are fewer and fewer children running and chasing in public places, but more and more 3C children bow their heads. What is a "3C child"? Wikipedia defines 3C products as computers, digital cameras, mobile phones, televisions, walkmen, electronic dictionaries, hardware devices for audio and video playback or digital audio players. These technology products should be televisions, computers, smart phones and so on. "3C children" refers to children who are exposed to TV, computers, smart phones and other products.

1970, the average age at which children started watching TV was four years old, but today, it is four months. In recent years, the American pediatric medical community has been calling on parents not to let their children under the age of two watch TV, but it seems to have little effect. Nearly 90% children in the United States still watch TV for one or two hours every day before they are two years old, and the situation in Taiwan Province Province is similar. In the past, many studies have discussed the influence of TV on children, because focusing on flat screen will not only affect the development of vision and language ability, but also reduce their participation in games and social contact, thus affecting their social development. No wonder experts and scholars should warn parents. However, with the constant appeal, more scientific and technological products appear, which intensifies the baby's contact with 3C products. It is found that 38% of children under 2 years old have the habit of playing mobile phones, tablet games and watching movies, which is only 65,438+00% more than that in 2065,438+065,438+0 years. At the same time, the study found that the proportion of children watching TV remained at 66%, while the proportion of using computers increased from 4% to 10%. But the number of people watching DVD dropped from 52% to 46%. This kind of data makes us pay attention to the topic of 3C children. Many parents will give their children their mobile phones or tablets in public places in order to keep their children quiet and not make noise. After opening games or video files, their children will become quite focused and quiet, and more and more parents will rely on 3C products as nannies to accompany their children. But in the opinion of experts, this is a series of injuries to children. When parents unconsciously treat 3C products as toys to coax their children, what adverse effects will it have on their children?

First, more and more distracted, showing a state of insufficient concentration.

According to Dimitri Christakis, an authoritative American scholar who studies the influence of media on young children, children before the age of three watch an hour more TV every day on average, and the rate of attention deficit will increase by 10% at school age. Studies have pointed out that before the age of three, for every hour of watching TV on average, the possibility that he can't concentrate at the age of seven increases by nearly 10%. The reason why TV hurts is that the program is so fast that he can't concentrate.

Too much exposure of children to 3C products will reduce their observation and sensitivity to the surrounding environment. In the face of complex traffic conditions or new campus environment, ears and eyes help us collect information to judge safety without practice! Self-protection ability is relatively low, so the probability of falling into crisis increases, and it is even more worrying if you form a habit!

Second, it is easy to cause myopia and affect vision.

The baby's eyesight has not developed well (it can only be normal at the age of six), and it needs to look east and west to get full vision development. Watching TV will focus children's eyes on a frame, but it will affect the normal development of vision. According to medical investigation, myopia before the age of six is nearly 80% of high myopia after growing up. High myopia is prone to glaucoma, cataracts and retinal detachment, so children's vision needs to be protected, especially before the age of seven, because children's vision will not mature until the age of seven, but the backlight of the tablet computer will make the screen brightness higher, and it will darken if it is not touched for a while. In this case, the pupil will continue to shrink to adapt to the change of light source. Being in a state of tension leads to excessive flexion of the lens, which leads to pseudomyopia. After a long time, you will be really nearsighted. The myopia problem caused by tablet computer is more serious than that caused by TV, so you must not be careless!

Third, language development is greatly challenged, which affects future learning.

Research shows that the longer children under three watch TV every day, the worse their reading ability and understanding ability; Some parents think that children can learn language through TV, but they don't know that language is deepened and broadened through dialogue and interaction between people. Television is a one-way "listening", which may cause slow language development. The vocabulary in TV is more vernacular, because TV is almost a dialogue between people, and the dialogue between people is simple and clear, and they are all single sentences. In addition, if children are used to sound and light and don't read books, it will greatly hinder their language. After all, it is difficult to achieve an article in a single sentence! Compared with tablet games, children have to learn fewer languages.

Fourth, lack of activities, interpersonal communication produces social obstacles and emotions are out of control.

Watching TV for a long time, playing sand, sliding slides, playing homemade wine, playing with mud, drawing and other activities will reduce the time, which is very important for a child's all-round development. On the one hand, in the process of playing, he has the opportunity to interact with others, learn social skills and improve social behavior. Good interpersonal interaction can increase emotional nourishment and increase his emotional stability. On the other hand, there can be opportunities for exercise. Exercise can increase the brain's secretion of Barton and stabilize the mood. Therefore, when a child's playmate is a 3C product, it will make him lack the object of emotional imitation, unable to have behavioral contact, and will also hinder his social interaction.

5. Violent content and commercial advertisements distort their values.

Violence in cartoons or games may be imitated by children, but violence in games is more harmful to children. Yale University's research points out that playing violent video games is more toxic than watching the same violent TV, because watching TV means that he is watching others do violent actions, while playing video games means that he is using violence. In addition, advertisements full of commercial activities will also tempt children to consume and distort their values.

Sixth, the amount of activity is reduced, and the physical fitness is reduced, which affects health.

With the extension of screen use time, children reduce their activity time, leaving only physical education class at school with the opportunity to exercise, which is prone to obesity and cardiovascular diseases. Time spent in front of the screen is often related to unhealthy eating behavior. When children get used to the connection between screen and food, they eat a lot of unnecessary calories, or the meal time is delayed, and they will eat more as soon as TV or computer games are over.

Science and technology supplies have infiltrated into family life in large quantities. Parents are advised to strengthen information technology literacy, set an example, and correctly teach preschool children to make good use of technology. Parents should reduce their children's use of 3C products, including televisions, computers, mobile phones and tablets, so that their children can be closer to nature, and their eyes can be more focused on the distance to avoid premature myopia. If you really want to use 3C products, you should pay attention to it.

The following matters:

Age: Before the age of three, it is a critical period of human brain development. Letting babies watch TV is particularly harmful to the brain. Most studies believe that children can watch TV only when they are over three years old, which is less harmful, while tablets and mobile phones are not provided before the same age.

Time: Children can be allowed to use 3C after school every day on weekdays, but the time can be limited to half an hour to forty minutes with age. Younger children need a short rest for 5 to 10 minutes, and holidays can be extended to 1 hour.

Content: TV programs are screened first, and only high-quality children's programs are provided to children. Computer or mobile games are played by parents or watched by children to ensure that children will not have the following problems when playing.

-Are there any behaviors that hurt others in the game?

-Once or twice in 30 minutes?

-Will you pay for the injury?

-Is the injury presented in a humorous and playful way?

-Is there no non-violent solution?

-Are there no real violent consequences in the game?

Even though technology is changing with each passing day, today, no technology product can replace parents' care for their children, and no game can surpass the happiness brought by parents' activities with their children. Therefore, parents should plan a healthy leisure life and spend more time with their children. "Don't let 3C be a nanny and find true love between parents and children".

Source: Hess Children, Issue 30.