How long to let a child play with the tablet?
Tablets are the electronic device that children like the most, however, they must have limits to play.
It seems that nowadays children are born with a tablet under their arm. Tablets , smartphones and new technologies in general are very involved in our lives and in our society, so it is normal for children to quickly learn how to operate a tablet and want to play with it for fun. There are so many colors, sounds and possibilities that they undoubtedly see it as an attractive ‘toy’.
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TABLETS AND CHILDREN
Tablets have positive but also negative effects on children. Just as children learn to stimulate their minds in a fun way, it also causes them to begin to lead a sedentary life. Children need to move physically, they need to interact directly with others … in short, they need to be children without being glued to a screen to play.
For this reason, parents should know that it is necessary to take into account a limited time for children to play the Tablet. The prohibition is not the solution, the important thing is that children can have the possibility of playing if that is what they want to do, but always with rules and limitations since there are other very important aspects for their development such as free play or reading in books.
THE TIME TO LET CHILDREN PLAY WITH THE TABLET
All parents can use common sense for this. You don’t have to leave the tablet for too long just to let you work or do your things and then restrict it when you feel bad about having left it too long. No, this is not the way. Your children need consistency in the rules and know that if you do it it is for their good and not for your internal benefit or to alleviate your feeling of guilt.
Professionals dictate that children ages 0-3 should not be exposed to screens and children ages 3-18 should limit their use of electronic devices to two hours a day. This means that the sum of the time your child has been in front of electronic devices -including tablets- should never exceed two hours. The most important thing to keep track of time is the type of content that you are watching or playing and that above all, it is of quality for your child. You need to control what your child watches or plays and be aware of what is appropriate and what is not appropriate for your children.
Do not forget that using the parental controls on the devices is necessary and that your child knows it so that he knows that it is not good to access anywhere on the Internet. You have to be aware of what is allowed to see and not see , what is dangerous and what is not. Thus, with the control activated, you can also leave little moments of leisure for your child with the Tablet, but always within the limited time. Remember that you should never use tablets to make your child ‘shut up’ or ‘stop bothering’.
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.