The parents are responsible, in preventing cell phone addiction in their own children here, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The case of the teenage girl gone missing in Kaohsiung a few days ago, in the working together of the police and local citizens, she was, recovered; as the child is returned back safe and sound to the parents, being a mother of a teenage daughter, I’d felt, relieved.
In recent years, the ages when children get a cell phone is on the decline, and, the time spent on the cell phone is longer by the years, and, it’d gotten us, mothers of teenagers into discussion whenever we met up. Because the children told us, “a lot of our friends had cell phones”, not mentioning how the school students are spending their time on coursework, or extracurricular activities. Although the parents can use measures to control the time spent on the cell phones, but it would be next to impossible, to avoid the arguments on the matter. To reduce the conflicts, the parents would be more lenient on the weekends, but, if I was too busy, and checked every few other days, then, I’d found, that my child spent around three hours on average on her cell phone per day.
what “became”, of children in this, high-tech era
Although the children say they will be able to control their own times of usage, but the temptations that the cell phone has is simply, way too, irresistible, sometimes, we adults can get too into it, imagine how easy it would be, for children, who hadn’t developed complete self-control yet?
This time, the teen girl from Kaohsiung, because of how into the cell phone games, it’d made her into a victim; and this event also became a good lesson for the children, hoping that the parents can lead their young, to see, just how dangerous the online world truly is.
Based off of survey the school instructor from a technical high school in Taichung conducted, it’d found, that out of the over a thousand sampled teens, as high as 64.3-percent were found to be severely addicted to cell phone, more than half of the sampled; but the study also pointed out, that those with a stabilized personality, showed less of an addictive tendency to cell phone usage.
The children becoming addicted to cell phones, the parents are responsible, so the parents should lead by example, put down your cell phones. To keep your children yours, starting today, Do set up a cellphone free zone (where the cell phones are charged), a place to put your cell phones as all of you gathered for the meals, or are sitting down together, to try and AVOID from using the cell phones.
As the underage children used their cell phones, the parents need to be attentive to see which app the child is using, who the children are playing with, and teaching them self-discipline, to have them monitor their times of usage; as they’re able to control themselves and older, then, allow them to use at their own free will. This is very hard, but, it can be accomplished, with the parents and children, working together.
And so, cell phones became, something none of us can do without, we have it in our hands, every minute of every hour of every day, and, we’re, addicted to it without even knowing, and this, is getting worse, because the children are younger by the years, when they received their very first smartphone, and we must, pay more attention to the children when they use their cell phones to play the games, we must, limit their time on it, because they can’t, monitor themselves yet.