Parents should limit their children’s hours of using electronic devices such as video games and television.

Parents should limit their children’s hours of using electronic devices such as video games and television.

The issue that whether parents should limit their children to use electronic devices has triggered a myriad of discussion. The public opinions are quite divergent. Some people think that children should be allowed to use electronic devices freely while others are not. Personally, I am favor of the view that it is important to control the time children spend on electronic devices.

To begin with, overusing electronic devices is negative for children’s mental development. Most children have poor ability of judgment and self-control, and thus they are easily addicted to the internet if nobody limit them. The world of internet is very complexed, even contained many negative information, so staying in that world for a long period of time may cause many psychological illnesses for children. For example, if some children always communicate with others in the virtual online world, they will spend less time on exploring outside environment, leading that they may have problems in social contact. Or if Some children are obsessed with video games, they may be influenced by lots of violent scenes, and even want to reflect those violent plots in reality. Therefore, parents should guide children to access to the internet healthily and limit their computer time so that children can spend more time on other things in real world, such as playing with friends or doing some hobbies, which are not harmful to children’s psychology.

Additionally, electronic devices will do harm to children’s physical health. Parent should manage a reasonable time for their children’s hours of using electronic devices, because multiple studies have shown that electronic equipment has strong radiation which may cause several problems, such as eye diseases and poor quality of sleep. Moreover, too much time with electronic devices may cause the lack of exercise, which is not only bad for children’s bodies, but also hurts how their brains function and develop. Obviously, it is important for parents to help their children free of screen and get other things done instead of staying still，such as climbing mountains, reading books and so on.