Many a times we find young children getting addicted to the television set and often complaining about how they cannot eat without watching a cartoon program.
Let us look at the pros and cons of letting nursery children use technology in the current scenario.Pros:Introducing gadgets to nursery children will definitely improve their learning capacities as great audio visual content is available on the internet to learn rhymes and watch cartoons.Letting children watch cartoons and rhymes on YouTube and other OTT platforms is much better than letting them watch cartoon channels because of the amount of advertisements in Tv.
Advertisers strategize their ads in a way that children get hooked to them and you to buy whatever is shown in the ad.
For example, if a child sees an ad of a particular xyz chocolate recurrently, he will very likely compel you to buy it for him whenever you take him to the super market.
Where as on OTT platforms there very minimum amount of such ads to addict the children.Scientists say that kids who use gadgets have a better quality of eye-hand coordination compared to those who don’t use gadgets.Children learn skills like communicating and storytelling better when using gadgets since they try to imitate cartoon characters.Cons:Using gadgets at for nursery children could cause several health issues like eye sight and back pain even in toddlers.
This is exactly why find many young kids today at the ophthalmologist’s office.Using gadgets for a long time is not a great for nursery children’s health because it might increase laziness among kids.