Nowadays, most of the young generation is spending their time in front of the screens because of social media and online games. In order, it leads many devastating effects on them such as problem with their well-being and attention deficits. I believe that parents should use some methods in order to solve this problem by using some apps that can control their mobile devices.
Today’s rapidly developing world digital devices became an integral part of human beings’ life. Additionally, many children spend most of their time in front of the screens. They usually spend their time on social media platforms such as You Tube, Instagram etc. Most of the children do not know what they are watching; as a result, they spend too much time on these platforms by scrolling videos, which is called “dumb scrolling.” In addition to this, while watching they just sit incorrectly or lie somewhere, which is dangerous for their blood cycle, by sitting for a long time their blood circulation does not work well, which causes head ache and other problems. Additionally, watching short videos has impact on their attention level, after watching those videos their short-term memory will be full of new information, which makes children’s concentration level lower. Therefore, spending time in front of the screen has many harmful effects.
On the other hand, children’s screen time can be controlled by their parents because there are several apps that can keep kids’ phones under the parents control. For example, there is one app, which is called Stay free, by using it parents can know which apps or social medias their child is using. Considering the example of India, where the children’s screen time was around 12 hours in a single day. After using this app their screen time was decreased around 6 hours in day, which had an effect in their studies as well. Thus, the screen time of children’s should be kept under the control by their parents.
In conclusion, because of screen time’s bad effects, I believe that it must be controlled by parents.