“Why your kids don't put down their smartphone --The Goan Everyday March 5, 2022.
This news report nicely analyses the situation parents and children find themselves in with regard to the electronic media, especially the so-called 'smartphone'.
Yes, there are endless quarrels, arguments, fights between parents and children about the use of mobile devices which include Smartphones, Tablets, Television powered by the internet. Who wins at the end of the day? That's anybody's guess!
There is no doubt that electronic devices are harmful for all of us, especially children. But, at the end of the day, we all seem to have become helpless.
From childhood to adulthood these electronic devices have become so much a part of one's life. They seem inseparable. Recall the days when parents/grandparents would narrate fairy tales or horror stories to their children, cajoling them while feeding them.
Today, it is the smartphone or the smart TV which has replaced the parents and their stories. Children cannot eat or digest their food without these devices.
Be that as it may, parents & psychologists the world over are at their wits end at to how to contain this virus of smart electronic devices powered by the internet, in their lives.
