Handphone addiction among small children is worrying

HANDPHONE ADDICTION
AMONG SMALL CHILDREN IS

WORRYING.

Ways to prevent this problem

INTRODUCTION

Children nowadays are getting serious about handphone addiction. Handphone or also known
as mobile phone is a wireless handheld device that allowed users to make and receive calls. While
the earliest generation of mobile phones could only make and receive calls, today’s mobile phones
do a lot more, accommodating web browsers, games, cameras, video players and navigational
systems. Statistic shows that 47% of parents surveyed believe their child has a handphone addiction
and 89% of parents take responsibility for their child’s handphone usage. Handphone addiction is a
serious problem in many parts of the world today and deserves more attention. It is no secret that
children in many countries throughout the world, including Malaysia use handphone almost every
day. Everyone needs to deal with the addiction of handphone among the children. We need to stop
this addiction among the children by giving more attention for them no matter how busy how parent
are, controlling the usage of their devices, and limiting the time for them to use the smartphone or
handphone.

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First and foremost, parents should control and monitor the time
usage of handphones among small children. This is because
parents are people whom the children spend most of their time
staying with. Therefore, parents can easily prevent their children
from spending most of their time on it and overcome the
addiction issue. For instance, parents may stop them immediately
when they exceed the time limit. Parents should also interact more
often with them to ensure that the children will not constantly seek
attention through social media on their handphones for example
just scrolling the Instagram, Twitter and whatApps all the times.
Consequently, children may have the opportunities to
communicate with people face to face instead of virtual
connection. They will get the appreciation they craving for in real
life and avoid causing addiction to occur. To sum up, parents
should limit the time usage of children’s handphones to prevent
addiction.

Next , parents should let their children play with their healthy
hobbies and activities. This is because healthy activities will
provide their children to be healthier day by day. If they only
play handphones everyday without any exercise such as cycling,
jogging and hiking, they will face some body physical problem
like back-pain and neck-pain . As an example, parents can
organise some activities on weekends, so they can be responsible
to manage their time to do some exercise. By doing this, we can
prevent them from getting sick from playing handphones for a
long time. Thus, healthy activities can prevent children to play
their handphone everytime.

Lastly , parent should pay more attention to their children
no matter how busy they are . This means that , parents
should spend more time with their children at least 2 hours
daily. For example , every weekend , parents should hold a
day without handphone and focus on family bonding . So ,
their children will be free to tell about their problem or
anything they are faing. So , their children will feel loved
and not being too addicted to the phone . Thus , parents
play a very important role to prevent their children
addiction to the handphone.

With all regards to the points above, it is clear that
handphone addiction among small children is a serious issue
parents and government should cooperate so that this issue
can be solved. To stop this addiction among the children,
parents should giving more attention for them no matter how
busy how parent are, controlling the usage of their devices,
and limiting the time for them to use the smartphone or
handphone. While handphone can be used for education
purpose and is an excellent source for small children as
entertainment, there still needs to be control and regulation
because miss use can bring more harm than good. To
conclude, children should use handphone wisely so that it can
bring more benefits in daily life.

THANK YOU !