If the child is upset, it may be tempting to find the tablet. But scientists fear that much use of tablet can affect children’s ability to regulate their own emotions.
– Being a parent can be very difficult, but Tablet should not be the solution to peace, says child and adolescent psychiatrist Melanie Huynh Ekholdt by child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient Vest in Oslo.
Huynh is concerned that children need contact with other people – face to face.
– Children should explore, talk and be physical together. That’s how the brain develops. Children do not need lots of other stimuli, she says.
Believes tablet should have three boundary
Huynh is very clear in his view of children and tablets. In her opinion, there is no reason why children should get help to get started with tablets until they are three years old.
– Use of tablets will cause your child miss important development. They learn that settles down with a screen. The tablet becomes the new pacifier or favorite blanket, she says.
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Will it go beyond the child’s ability to develop empathy, social skills and problem solving?
– Not a new debate
– I’m not a neuroscientist, so I can not comment on medical grounds. But I can speak as kindergarten teacher and media scholar, this debate is not new, says Barbro Hardersen, project manager for Media Authority “Safe Use”.
The project work for the safe use of digital media for children and young people.
– If the tablet should be graded away, apply censorship when all types of screens? Concerns about the media “automatic” damages children appeared both as cinema and television came. When television came, there was a fear for children’s eyes. But television was not forbidden, says Hardersen.
Hardersen believes that there is no need for state age limits in relation to children and the use of tablets.
– Parents know their own children. If they need something that can calm the child down, so they do. Need child a trip into the wild, so they go for a walk out. I think that it is more problematic to just take the board away from the kids, and believe that this will give children a good upbringing. In addition, children’s rights cf. CRC. They are entitled to information, and tablets and media is a central and user friendly platform for information for children today, she says.
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Melanie Ekholdt Huynh is concerned that communication between parents and children should not be disturbed by a screen.
– When a child in need of comfort, it is important to connect with other people. It might not be so nice for parents to experience the tablet easier calms the child down than they even manage with physical contact and voice, she said.
Children and youth psychiatrist says that families can quickly end up in a vicious circle.
– Children are addicted tablet, and parents feel bad. It’s hard enough being a parent, though one should not struggle with this as well, she says.
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– Learning to stand in difficult emotions
According to Huynh it turns too often that there are children who are already struggling a bit like sitting most front of a screen.
– But where does it start really? Gets kids troubled because they spend much time on a tablet, or they spend lots of time on tablets because they are troubled? Vulnerable children should be challenged and learn to stand in the difficult feelings with her parents, she says.
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– Possible weaning
Have tablet taken too much space in everyday life, says Huynh that it is entirely possible to accustom the child off.
– The first two or three weeks it may be difficult, it will be like with weaning from breast or pacifier. But it is an investment. Both children and parents get the better, and many feel that the child both fall asleep easier and eating better, says Huynh.
Barbro Hardersen agree that nothing can replace contact between people, face to face.
– But sometimes we have such few finished dinner, and then I see nothing wrong in a few minutes on the tablet with a good app. Maybe it inspires common song? So maybe we can go out on the sled ride at the weekend when everyone has free, says Hardersen.
– Thinking then that the trip will be a compensation for a did not get done during the week?
– No. I think it is more useful to look at everything we do, for example during a month. We should not feel guilty for the kids watching some Postman Pat or playing a game. Think about your own use as an adult. Are you “addicted”, or you need a breather? We all need breaks in everyday life, and they can be both with and without technology. There is no talk of tablet use all day, but maybe five to ten minutes, she says.
What is addiction?
She believes addiction concept is a serious medical diagnosis.
– Certainly creates games and tablet dedication and enthusiasm, but what is addiction? I’ve never heard that some censor away a book that your child is engrossed, because the child may become dependent, says Hardersen.
– We will obviously take seriously if there is one and two year olds who use tablets too much. But there are exceptional cases. So young children often wanders from activity to activity, she said. Hardersen thinks it is great with debate, for there are many who are struggling with issues surrounding children’s Internet use.
– But then there are also many who have found good routines and got it into everyday life in a good way. Maybe there is talk of tablet use one hour a week, or 20 minutes in the morning. The main thing is that there is balance in everything we do, she says.
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Hardersen says there are several Nordic and Norwegian studies showing that tablet can promote social interaction, and be supportive to learning.
– It is also Playful and children take media experiences with the kindergarten and other play arenas in retrospect, says Hardersen.
She tells of a nursery where the adults found a great sandcastle in kindergarten sandbox. Barna explained that it was not a sandcastle, but Minecraft building (building a computer game, journ.anm.).
– This requires that the adults have an attitude and ability to pick up references from today’s media culture in children’s play. Addressing some kids are already familiar with and interested in, is a superb way to work with problem solving and social skills, suggests Hardersen as a response to the US survey.
– It is the responsibility of adults to follow their children’s common references today and they are different than when they went to kindergarten. Removes one common references by prohibiting media access, can easily fall off children. It is serious, she says.
– Brutally deny
– I think it’s brutal whether a child should not be able to use tablet at all until they are three years. Today it is a large part of society, and the tablet is a great gateway to become a digital citizen, something everyone today must be trained to be. I think that tablet is no more problematic than other media. The child takes the an active role by pressing and get “reply”.
– You may want to sit with your child and pushing, play and hear sounds. It is social training, and does not preclude contact face to face. I think it’s a bit random though it is a book or a tablet. Children and adults do this together and complement each other fine. But it is important that we reflect on what their children are doing, and that we try out apps before we give the tablet to the children, says Hardersen.
– Many people think that the use of tablets is about to hang out with in the past?
– Tablet children can learn anytime otherwise . As a professor of education said, is kindergartens obliged to teach kids digital literacy. When they get enough in kindergarten, and does not need to be on a tablet with parents too. Parents are often tired, and it becomes difficult not to. Tablets are comfortable, answer Huynh.
– Adults should talk
Children and youth psychiatrist believes that children who have reached three years can practice to get a balanced relationship with tablets. And Internet use should be with their parents.
– Children should preferably start with a joint exploration of online world with close adults, says Huynh.
About parents feel that it is difficult to regulate Internet use, says Huynh that it is important that adults are talking.
– Take it up with partner, friends or grandparents. Use the adults who know you and your child, such as kindergarten teacher or nurse, she says.
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