Your Answer ▼ These days, it has become a topic of controversy that more and more children have been using smartphone for a long time. Even though it have been a main source of audiovisual contents and convenient to handle it, disadvantage much more outweigh advantage in terms of growth and development of children. As the number of double-income couple have increased, many parents have become too busy to take care of their children in person, which have engaged their children audiovisual contents. Smartphone has been very convenient way to access those contents whenever they need, with this trends, many producers fuel to fire by producing a variety of educational and entertaining contents for them. These phenomenon have caused many side effect. First of all, as proven in many studies, audiovisual contents stimulate people brain, which excessively affect to children so called popcorn brain. Children who are exposed a lot to smartphone contents have been inclined to find more stimulated contents, which cause distraction, by extension, psychological development disorder. In fact, many children find more quick and short contents, even the ratio of children who receive psychotherapy have been currently increased. Secondly, smart phone have been substituted for outdoor activity, which cause not only eye sight but behavior development disorder. Physical parts such as muscle could develop with amount of proper activities especially in childhood. According to a study, creativity on children strongly correlated with amount of time playing outdoor. In conclusion, children have no choice but to use smartphone these days, but imprudent usage could have cause many drawbacks for them. Even though the best way is children hangout outdoor with parent and friends instead of watching smartphone, if they couldn't do, parents should guide and offer proper contents to them.
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