15% of children usually play with mobile applications and tablets from their parents. It is a very common resource on trips to entertain when they want to eat or even to calm them down when they have a tantrum.
Children, especially those under two years, have great plasticity in the visual system, adapting to the circumstances and the environment in which they develop. Hence if you spend a lot of time working with a very small and close to the view screen, your system approach could be altered.
Children of the consequences of using these screens is that in some children, using both time near vision, could come to light graduation defects such as farsightedness, astigmatism or even some types of strabismus. Furthermore, the use of these screens decreases the number of times per second, producing a reduction in quality of tear, so that the eye becomes red, giving a feeling of dryness and blurred vision.
All that changed with the advent of new technologies, video games and social networks undoubtedly have added a universal challenge in parenting, where a balance is sought between allowing independent exploration and provide an adequate level of supervision of parents who, in turn, have been forced to enter the digital age to better understand the world of their children.
While in our youth we were looking for social interaction through activities and personal conversations, everything our children or grandchildren do online today is part of a broader social context. Today it is more complex to know "where they are" ... the sites they visit, the games they play, because even the things they like are recorded as data and are packaged in a "character line" that can even become anonymous.
Parents of these changes tech Consciences teens, adults monitor the "digital" behavior of their teens. A survey by the Pew Research Center shows that parents of young people aged between 13 and 17 years have now a wide range of actions to control online life of their teens and to use technology appropriately and responsibly.
Moreover, as digital technology has become so central in the lives of adolescents, a significant part of parents now uses a new method to enforce family rules: the "digital punishment". 65% of parents of teenagers in the United States deprived Internet or your mobile phone to your teens to punish them, according to the Pew study.
Our punishments were: do not play, do not leave the house or receive visitors and do not go to parties.
When it comes to monitoring the use and digital interactions with their children, parents today tend to take a more practical approach to monitor what they do.
While in our youth we were looking for social interaction through activities and personal conversations, everything our children or grandchildren do online today is part of a broader social context. Today it is more complex to know "where they are" ... the sites they visit, the games they play, because even the things they like are recorded as data and are packaged in a "character line" that can even become anonymous.
Parents of these changes tech Consciences teens, adults monitor the "digital" behavior of their teens. A survey by the Pew Research Center shows that parents of young people aged between 13 and 17 years have now a wide range of actions to control online life of their teens and to use technology appropriately and responsibly.
Moreover, as digital technology has become so central in the lives of adolescents, a significant part of parents now uses a new method to enforce family rules: the "digital punishment". 65% of parents of teenagers in the United States deprived Internet or your mobile phone to your teens to punish them, according to the Pew study.
Our punishments were: do not play, do not leave the house or receive visitors and do not go to parties.
When it comes to monitoring the use and digital interactions with their children, parents today tend to take a more practical approach to monitor what they do.
According to the Pew survey, 61% of parents admit to having revised enter what websites their children; 60% have seen the social profile of their children; 48% have reviewed the history of calls and messages from their cell; 39% have used parental controls to block or monitor the use of the online activities of their children, 16% have used parental controls to prohibit cell phone use and another 16% have used tracking tools to monitor the place their children are.
Probably he not touched us most. At that time, the method was also handy but much simpler: go to the neighbors or to places where we said we would be. Most technologically was a phone call to check.
It is interesting that 83% of parents who have a Facebook page and whose son is also present in this social network has become a "friend" of the adolescent, according to the study. This can be an advantage over the parent-child relationship at the time of adolescence where we became the "foe" (they were ashamed of their parents).
The report also found that more than half of parents have limited time or when teenagers can be online, "regardless of their behavior in general." The vast majority of parents (94%) also said he talked with your teen about what should and should not share "online".
In addition, nearly half (48%) of parents know the password to the email account of their teens, while 43% know the password to the cell phone of their young children and 35% know the password at least one of the accounts of social networks of their teens, the study entitled 'Parents, teens and digital monitoring "(Parents, teens and digital monitoring).
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