Technology addiction and Its impact on children mental health

Abstract

Living in today‘s modern world, technology has integrated into so many aspects of our lives. It‘s become an essential tool for children and for adults. This rise in use has led to the focus on the consequences of use of technology. We all agree that technology helps us in various ways, also in children education and in learning creative stuff but it has its drawback which people ignore. Nowadays parents get their child a smart phone/tablet from a very early age. Having 5 year olds sitting somewhere glued to the screen with no interaction with the world around them is worrying. The expanding amount of time children are spending on technology at home, especially in the lockdown situation, has brought up issues about how the tech devices have an effect on their lives-from helping with homework to causing depression to encourage violent behavior , vision syndrome and other health issues. Introducing technology to children at a young age or excessive use of tech devices among toddlers, can effectively affect their personal lives, their associations with others, and their well-being later on. The purpose and the objective of the study was to highlight the issues of unlimited screen timing and wrong use of technology that people ignore and to aware them through animation that how it‘s so important for all of us to limiting our screen time for the betterment in future and how a human interaction plays an important role in the development of a child‘s brain. As a result of this increase in usage, more attention is being paid to the implications of technology use, including how it affects children's brains and their socio-emotional, cognitive, and physical development.