July 22, 2025
In today’s digital era, usage of screen is advancing rapidly and has become an absolutely essential part of our daily lives in the form of television, mobile phones, and YouTube videos. However, the use of screen has many benefits and children can learn a lot from learning videos but the excessive use of screen can be harmful. It is observed that children who are exposed to unlimited screen have poor language/social/emotional development. Screen time can severly affect the attention and concentration of children.
Therefore, due to poor attention and delays in language development children also struggle with following commands of their family member. Parents report that their child does not even follow simple commands like ‘bring it’ and ‘give me’. Additionally, such children can also start isolating them rather than participating in social interaction. But the real problem starts when the child gets addicted to screen. Parents say “My child does not do anything without screen.
“My child does not eat without screen”
“My child shouts and hits when screen is taken away”
These are all serious problems and are indicators that screen time of the child should be controlled. Due to these problems, behavior therapists usually recommend that parents should avoid screen under 2 years and until 5 years the child’s screen time should not go beyond 1 hour. Parents should replace screen time with human interactions and offer other alternative activities to engage the child (pegboards, drawing, playground activities, and role-plays).
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