How to get rid their children’s addiction to mobile of, many parents are facing common problems in the modern era of technology. Here are some simple but most effective ways to make their children more curious to outdoor activities rather than becoming a mobile addictor.
Set boundaries
Parents should need to set limits of every activities like Bedtime, Mealtime, Study time , Family time and entertainment time.Thier mobile time can be limited by using screen time and using apps that track time.
Wisely replace scrolling with outdoor activities
Children learn from family environment they get. Parents should restrict themselves from using mobile. Rather, they should engage themselves in outdoor activities like gardening, playing your children favourite board games, storytelling, painting, reading newspaper.
Limits Social media use
A pop-up of unnecessary notifications distracts mind. Notifications should be turned off to avoid distractions. Install only those apps that are essential.
Digital detoxing
When phone not needed, keep it in another room. Set some parts of the day as no phone hours specially make Sundays as no phone days.
Spend time on real conversations
Make time to talk to your children. Make it priority. Ask them about their day and talk about their interesting moments of the day. Always make eye contact while having conversation. This makes them feel comfortable and relax so that they can share their feelings and daily stories.
Reward Progress
Some small celebrations like ” 5 hours without mobile” makes children feel entertaining. It makes children to avoid mobile use.
Since children are being passing through that part of lilfe where they think creatively. So parents need to understand that we don’t have to press their creativity by strictly restricting them form using mobile because this restriction is counterproductive as it gives birth to the desire of knowing more about mobile. Parents should tell the wrong and right sides of using mobile. But real change can be brought by creating a mobile free environment as possible as parents can do by diverting their mind from mobile to other useful activities.