Mobile phones can make or break a child’s lifestyle

Children often play and have fun with toys and their replicas. But have you ever imagined that today’s kids would play and spend hours on a mobile phone? Yes is the answer.

Since the advent of cell phones in India, children of all age groups can have access to mobile phones without parental control. Having access to cell phones at a tender age will not only harm their lifestyle but also ruin their day-to-day routine to a significant extent.

Today’s kids spend hours playing games, watching movies, and listening to songs which were quite unthinkable a few years ago. They have no parental pressure and absolutely no control from elders either.

In the absence of proper restrictions, they often end up replicating the act of videos that flashes on their mobile screens. This can lead to devastating effects on their life and would jeopardize their studies to a large extent.

So what should be the remedy and what should prevent the kids from accessing cell phones throughout the day? Well, the answer is enforcing strict parental control and imposing restrictions on their use.

Parents have to take strict measures and prevent their kids from accessing cell phones the whole day, but at the same time allow them to refresh and wind up for few hours on their cell phones provided they don’t access videos and photos that are disturbing and hardcore in nature.

Having phone access at a tender age would prove detrimental to a child’s mental and physical health as well. Erratic eating habits and sleeping at odd hours would lead to obesity and they often end up in a doctor’s clinic.

Apart from the above issues, another crippling effect a child might have to face due to their cell phone habits is the lack of interest in academics and extracurricular activities. Most parents would want their wards to excel in studies and extracurricular activities. Despite their expectations, today’s kids let their parents down due to their whimsical habits.

Today the proliferation of cell phones has increased manifold and every citizen of this country owns a phone nowadays. So restricting and preventing a child from accessing a cell phone is quite a tedious job.

Mobile phones are gadgets that should be utilized for educational purposes and to acquire knowledge through various apps that it displays. Though it is used in the right way sometimes, misusing it for illicit activities shouldn’t be encouraged at any cost.

A child’s future is in the hands of their parents who have to guide them and show them the right path to traverse. Using cell phones in the right way would be beneficial in the long run and misusing it would ruin the child’s future completely.

Parents have to shoulder extra responsibility to prevent their wards from accessing disturbing and malicious content on cell phones and dissuade them from spending long hours on such devices.

Lastly to conclude I would say cell phones are a technology marvel. They have changed the way we talk, watch content, and send messages. But kids accessing cell phones should be a strict no for any age group unless and until the kid attains maturity. So think wisely and act sensibly. Do not repent later for your kid’s mistakes that would later wreck your child’s future.