Children are inborn unlearned. They are directed to learn and act in a socially acceptable way. Learning is a process of acquiring knowledge from conception to death.At the age of infancy, an infant satisfy their biological needs by weeping, shouting, and crying. why they do this, beacuse they are not known to the appropriate ways to achieve one thing. A child brain is like a sponge which observes water when repress it. Similarly children born with a blank state of brain they can learn through observation, teaching and modeling.
Because smart phones and other electronic gadgets are easily accessible in every home setting, social media is now in use of every single human being. Lets have a look on the possible negative effects of social media on children’s internal and external environment. It includes Disturbed sleep,loss of appetite, wastage of time, Inferiority complex issues, Cyber bullying, easily reachable to sexual predators, Negative evaluation of others comments and ideas, developing Blind trust,lack of social skills such as disturbance in social and interpersonal relationships,Poor communication , concentration problems, privacy issues, lower self esteem, Mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, exposure to sexually harmful behaviours, and now a trend of cross cultural wedding has also emerged.Being exposed to some of the above elements can become the major root cause of disturbances in real life.
Besides all the negative effects,we cannot ignore the positive aspects of using social media. learning social skills e.g developing healthy Communication styles, encouraging others ideas and concepts, Expressing ones self and creativity, developing empathy, Awareness of surrounding, some of them may develop high self esteem, building of ones identity.
Not only social media, Electronic media is also contributing in the negative effects on youngsters life style. Gaming, televisions programs and movies etc has a worse affect on a child’s mental health. childrens should expose to content on electronic media which have a positive theme. Games other then fighting include puzzle and mind games makes them able to solve mathematical and analytical problems. programs other than dramas and movies include documentaries, political debates etc.
one of the negative affect of media can be cause by peer groups. Peer environment provides the courage to compliance with others in impropriate usage of media. They can be easily influence to perform the same thing and to get pleasure.
Being exposed to Electronic equipment is not bad, the way of its excessive use is bad. Nowadays, it is become necessary to know what actually android, computer and its programing is.
learning can be done by many ways, it depends on what parenting style is adopted to teach one child. parents should know the effects of media on their child’s routine by keeping eye on them, while ignoring can cause a Huge distressing life pattern. parents are responsible to maintain their routine in order to guide them, to make them responsible and punctual and to sustain their physical health too.
