Advice on the use of new technologies in children
Today's children are born and grow up surrounded by new technologies. The digital revolution has changed the moment and the way in which children access information and communication on digital platforms. In almost all houses there is a computer, a smartphone, a tablet or a video game console. And,
Today's children are born and grow up surrounded by new technologies. The digital revolution has changed the moment and the way in which children access information and communication on digital platforms. In almost all houses there is a computer, a smartphone, a tablet or a video game console.
And, practically, you do not have to teach them to use them, or they do not have to learn how we learned that we are adults today, they handle new technologies by imitation and in a much more natural way. Consejos 7 tips on new technologies and children
This easy access to the new technologies by children makes us ask ourselves many questions:
when it is convenient to introduce them in the child's life durante, for how long, how to make use adequate of them, what can be taken out of positive and what dangers they have. Guiainfantil.com has spoken with Javier Urra, doctor in psychology and pedagogue therapist, to know his opinion on the matter.1- 'New technologies are a good instrument, but they must be put to good use', explains Urra. This means that the excess in its use is harmful to the child. In any case,
there is no specific age to introduce them into the child's life but there are concrete guidelines on how to do it. 2- According to Javier Urra, parents have to "know that there is a time to use phones or tablets but also to talk, to play, to study, to listen to music or to read."
3- It is convenient that parents know these technologies and know how to manage them to teach their children in turn to do it positively and in the process explain the danger they can find in them.
4- Not all Internet content is suitable for children. 'You have to make proper use of time and age, because what is appropriate for a child of 14 is not appropriate for a child of 7. There are things that are not right for a child under age,' says Urra. In the hand of parents is to put filters to the information contained on the Internet.
5- New technologies do have a positive side, and that is that they can be an
exceptional learning instrument for children , since we can have a high level of information in real time. In addition, there are more and more activities for children with autism, ADHD or any other disorder that use this technology to help them. 6-The worst of them for Javier Urra are the 'risks they entail, all of them related to the misuse of technologies'. Children are exposed to dangers such as cyberbullying, grooming or sexting. Knowledge of this type of harassment on their part will help them to be more protected and be more cautious.
7- A child may become obsessed with new technologies. It can be said that he is addicted when, when asked to stop using the telephone, tablet or computer, the child feels bad and feels the need to use them again. It is when we can say that it has a dependency.
