Virtual World.. It is almost a modern virus that has captured everyone from 7 to 70 today. A world where we can order our needs, including water, from home with a few clicks from where we sit, order clothes online without having to worry about going to the store, even visit real places in 3D from the computer as if we were there, or play out the imaginary lives of imaginary characters in video games. So why did I call this a virus? Are there no benefits? What are the harms, how are our children's brains affected by this virus?
First of all, we need to distinguish this. There's a difference between using something and abusing it. You are very sick, you have a special situation, you cannot go out that day, you can order water to go home online. This makes your life easier. However, you don't have any problems, you are doing everything you can, yet having every need taken care of on the internet every second is abusing you. However, you are abusing yourself, not the technology.
Although the internet and this virtual world enable us to handle our daily tasks easily, these "one clicks" push us to laziness and impatience. Because our work gets done so quickly that our brain expects everything to be done with "one click" even when we need to be patient and struggle. Because he's getting used to it. Maybe even when you need to read something, you read the sentences by skipping as if you were fast-forwarding the video on YouTube. Well, after all, they have accustomed us to impatience in life, haven't they? There are digital parents who think of everything for us and meet our needs. We are the digital children of digital parents. Let me ask you this frequently asked question. What did people use to meet their needs in times when the internet, mobile phones or tablets were not so widespread? Of course, with their own struggles and patience. At that time, this struggle was considered normal, but now it is said "who will bother?" A So what happens when we encounter problems that our digital parents cannot solve? Of course, running away from the problems, not being able to find solutions to the problems, not being able to think, not taking action, then anger and maybe depression. So how do we deal with this? Shop in store by going to the market, going out, really socializing, reading books, researching, which is a more troublesome way than watching videos, that is, taking our own individuality into our own hands.
What about our children? We later became digital, but they were born digital. So everything was ready. Don't they give them a tablet from the age of 1.5-2 and say "what a smart kid, he uses the tablet even though he can't read or write"? That's the goal anyway. That is, to produce a tool that is easy for everyone to use, to make them captive to these tools and to make profit from it.
Some parents do the worst harm to their children, perhaps unknowingly. They distract their children with technology so that they do not become busy with the screen and "make parents' lives difficult." They make the child eat in front of the TV, they make him watch a tablet when they are going to do the housework, and when they go to a restaurant, they give the child a tablet so that he can sit quietly next to them for a longer time. So, the aim is to rein in the child with the digital caregiver and give him some time for himself. However, no technological device can establish the emotional and spiritual bond that a child establishes with his or her parents. Research shows that the mental development of children who are emotionally unfulfilled lags behind. In fact, too much screen time at an early age can even lead to autism-like disorders and failure to develop expressive language skills. So your child's speech is delayed. Because the screen means a lifeless tool in which the child is constantly passive for hours. One of them is always a narrator and a showman, while the other one is just a listener. So it is passive. The best learning occurs when human beings are active rather than passive. In its simplest form, imagine that you are going to a seminar or a business meeting. Having the speakers always talk and you always being a listener (passive) causes the brain to go into rest mode after a while, reducing productivity. However, let's assume that you were able to ask questions in those meetings, that there were environments where you could discuss your own ideas, and that you took an active role. Which one would be more instructive and memorable for you? This does not mean that. This is you It doesn't mean that you can't learn anything when you are passive, what you learn and what you remember is more superficial because you don't have the chance to think, question, share things. Of course, children also learn something from the tablet. However, what they learn is nothing compared to what they learn while traveling, touching, smelling and hearing the outside world. The more you experience the outside world, the denser and stronger the neuron connections in your brain become. In other words, the more interaction with the outside world means the more "neural connection", that is, intelligence. This is why developmental problems occur with intensive use of tablets and television, and it is said that development lags behind due to lack of stimulation. In other words, developmental delays that occur due to the use of television and tablets are not due to a disability in the child's brain, but due to the child not experiencing life enough.
In addition, human beings learn about the desired and undesirable things to do by being approved for their positive behaviors and warned for their negative behaviors. Remember the first time your child randomly said daddy? The enthusiastic reaction you give there will make the child feel that he has done something good and motivate him to try to talk more. The tablet cannot do this, and your child cannot increase and demonstrate his existing achievements. This alone is a factor that will affect the child's speech and language skills.
This means this. Spend screen-free time with your children. Play games together, go to the amusement park, shop, love, hug, experience the world together, ask how the day was, tell about yourself, read a story, teach him about life. So make an effort.
The use of technology in children is so risky, our children do not know what it means to distract themselves, they do not know how to play with toys, how to set up a game, they do not know how to share, how to make friends, how to establish communication, how to show harmony. they don't know. When families get together occasionally, all most children do is sit side by side and play tablets. The worst part is that parents also go out for the sake of socializing. When they go out, they socialize on their "phones". Communication is zero, sharing is zero. Not your phones; Take your family to dinner and fun. See the beauties of those moments on a nature trip, at a concert, at a museum, with your own eyes, before the screens of your phone. Put it in your own memory, then if you want to immortalize it, you can shoot it.
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