Every day we see young mammies with children in a wheelchair that still do not know how to speak, but already skillfully switch applications in the mother's smartphone. We are no longer surprised that the kids are practically born with a gadget in the hands, which they will never release. If it is impossible to refuse the results of technical progress, it can be done so that smartphones, laptops and tablets bring more benefits than harm. Tell me how.
The child takes the example
If you do not want your kid around the clock to look into the screen, do the same. It is not easy for a child to understand why you limit it only, although they yourself do not rush to produce a smartphone from hand. Determine the time, for example, in the evening after work, when you spend free clock with your family, let your tradition become family evenings, instead of endless chats in messengers.
The child should not receive a smartphone as a promotion
Often parents who spend at work almost all the time, not knowing how to redeem their guilt for the absence in the life of the baby, try to back up the Son or daughter with new gadgets or unlimited time, which the child can spend on the Internet. In addition, the new tablet often serves as the reaction of parents for good estimates, fulfilling homework and so on. If you do not want to face a teenager, which will no longer be able to demand, but require "fees" for banal cleaning in the house, stop using gadgets as a "currency".
Follow the content that consumes your child
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Set borders
No, it does not mean that having crossed the threshold of the house, the child automatically deprives the right to use social networks and messengers. We are talking about intervals that you spend together daily, for example, for dinner, when the family is going at the table to discuss things. Smartphones in this situation are not a place.
Follow the content that consumes your child
The more you prohibit, the more negative reaction get in response. Be cunning: Let the child use your phone, but only by those applications that are arranged in terms of content. Or download the games you choose with your child.