Why Is Smartphone Not So Smart Parenting

Teens have an addiction towards electronic devices. Many people spend hours a day on these devices. Lasn states, “living inside the postmodern spectacle has changed people” (Lasn 171). Technology has changed the way people spend their time and also the way they feel towards family members. People have a sense of connection when they are on their electronic devices, but when it comes to family time there is a sense of disconnection.

​Technological advancement is one factor that affects parent-child relationship. According to research, 46% of smartphone owners consider their smartphones as a necessity for daily living (Smith). Technology has made it possible to incorporate a lot of things in just one phone – you can use it as an alarm clock, a camera, a dictionary, and many more – making it a constant feature in day to day activities. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and other social networking sites have made communication easier, that’s a good thing. However, most college students spend their time interacting with their friends online and that causes them to spend less time bonding with their parents. Likewise, the parents distance themselves from their children when they use technology as a means to bring more work at home. Even if technology

Children are replacing physical activity with video games, YouTube, Netflix, text messaging, and social media accounts. Instead of going outside on a nice, sunny day, they would much rather stay indoors and play on their IPod, IPhone, tablets, or computers. In Jim Taylor’s article, there were studies done on children and screen time. While most researchers thought that children did not spend that much time on their devices due to busy schedules, they were shocked to find out that children are just multitasking. They are texting, playing video games, and watching videos or movies in between their free times, or even while doing their homework. Children are becoming less active and more dependent on their devices.

Mom turns on the television and sets the table, dad comes home from work, checks his personal digital assistant for an email he’s been waiting on, while his daughter sits at the table finishing up a “thumb lashing” on her cell phone that she is giving to her “BFF” because she just failed her history test. This scenario has become the norm in homes across America today. It’s the digital age, technology is booming at such a rapid pace we cannot even wear out our devices before the newer up-to-date models arrive. Technology has negative effects on society, because it is causing our critical thinking and social interaction skills to decline, it is disrupting the American family unit, and it has caused us to become a distracted society that is

It’s universal for parents to hand their children electronic tablets while at home or in the car. This establishes habits of not socializing or envisaging.

Study’s made by AVG shows that fifty four percent of children think their parents check their smartphones too often and thirty two percent of children ‘feel unimportant’ when their parents are on their smartphones. The constant use of the smartphone is a bad model of parenting, but it does not mean that parents have to stop using smartphones because parents can give hundred percent attention to their children without giving hundred percent of their time. In fact, it is healthy for children and they will not see the smartphone as more important than

Parents need to pay more attention to their phones than their children. In the article “For The Children’s Sake, Put Down That Smartphone”By Patti Neighmond, it states evidence that “Forty of the 55 parents used a mobile device during the meal, and many, she says, were more absorbed in the device than with the kids”. Children will soon feel neglected that parents chose their phones over them. People have done research that kids feel angry that their parents use the mobile device. It states “ ….Steiner-Adair interviewed 1,000 children between the ages of 4 and 18, asking them about their parents’ use of mobile devices. The language that came up over and over again, she says, was sad, mad, angry, and lonely”. This show that families need to stay off their phones and pay more attention to their each

In this technology driven society, we often find ourselves handing children an electronic device to “occupy” them. Maybe we are on an important call; maybe the restaurant is busy and you don’t want them to cause a scene. Whatever the reason may be, the fact remains, we do not think twice about handing over our devices to a child. Without realizing, we are hindering our children’s brain growth. Too much screen time, without enough family connection time, can lead to the misdiagnosis of ADHD.

The rise of technology in today's time has definitely transformed society's thought process. Whether the usage be for work or to pass time, technology has become a resource bigger than its limits. However, despite hearing all the praise, there is plenty of wrong with the usage of technology. For instance, a survey done by the Wall Street Journal stated that more than 500 employees showed that technology accounted for about sixty percent of workplace distractions, through email, social websites. Furthermore, families are being torn apart because of the over-usage of technology. Relationships have become so broken because people have replaced quality family time with technology. Through the over-usage of technology parenting skills have weakened

We all know technology is a good thing, right? Or is it? We can all come up with reasons why technology is helpful or appropriate like we can for a particular medicine. And while some drugs are really great to cure or prevent a disease, sometimes the side effects outweigh any possible benefit. The same is true with technology. Some common negative side effects of technology are kids playing on their phones instead of going outside to play or young people not interacting face-to-face as much as they used to. Parenting is an area that has suffered since the rise in technology, specifically with phone use.

Unfortunately, more and more families are being distracted from time they could spend with their family. Many parents are not able to stop work when they get home. Parents and children alike, have become too easy to become distracted by things such as electronics or have become addicted to electronic devices not seeing the impact that it has on family life.

First, answer this question. Are you reading this on your phone or iPad? If you are, you run the risk of having your picture posted on a website dedicated to “shining a light on the culture of mobile phones and parental neglect”, Parents on Phones. This topic, often referred to as “parenting while texting” has been discussed everywhere from The Wall Street Journal, and from Dateline NBC in an episode entitled “The Perils of Parenting.” As a result, the media has placed parents in two categories: those parents who play on their phone while ignoring their children and the superior parents who do not.

Through the line “it’s not very likely you’ll win World’s Greatest Dad if you can’t entertain a child without using an iPad”, Gary cleverly illustrates the growing problem of parents using technology as an ‘easy way out’ to keep their children occupied. This phenomenon is sadly very common in today’s world. For example, New York Daily News reported that in 2013, 58% of American parents admit to using gadgets to ‘babysit’ their children. They do this to make their own lives easier, because that way, they do not have to actively entertain their children. However, although it lifts a burden off their own shoulders, there are many negative implications this can have on a growing child, such as hindering cognitive and social development. To contrast, when I was growing up, even though my parents did teach me how to operate a computer and browse the internet, they never once used technology as a ‘calming mechanism’. They were always one hundred percent present in their parenting and that is something that I am grateful for, and that I feel all children today should receive from their parents as

Accessibility of the mobile devices allows them to easily hold places in our houses. Gutnick and colleagues (2010) underlines the fact that cost of the mobile devices and data plans are decreased and more families intend to use mobile devices to grow up their children on a digital age. Even though children younger than eight years old do not have their own mobile devices (iphone, ipod and tablets), their parents passes their devices to children (Chiong & Shuler 2010). For this reason parent perception on using mobile devices is

Technology has advanced over the years and is starting to be used more often by families on a daily basis for work, school, leisure, and for social interaction. In today’s modern society, it is not uncommon to see a technological device in someone’s possession. In fact, a recent study done in 2016 found that technology is more prevalent than we might realize with 98 percent of adults between the ages 18 and 29 owning a cell phone and 85 percent of those cell phones being smart phones (Stein, Osborn, & Greenberg, 2016). This lit review examines the effect that technology has on family relationships. Technology has an important place in American families, but it can easily take up valuable time that can be spent having face to face interactions. In 2013 children ages 8 to 18 years old spent approximately 7.5 hours a day looking at a screen, and when looking at the same age group back in 1999 children only spent 5 hours a day using technology (Sanders, Parent, Forehand, & Breslend, 2016). Family bonding experiences can be influenced if children and parents are frequent users of technology. A very recent study conducted this year found that social media is used daily by 75 percent of adults ages 18-29 using it and 66 percent of older adult ages 30-39 using it as well (Haslam, Tee, & Baker, 2017).