Monitoring Toddlers and Technology

Running head: MONITORING TODDLERS AND TECHNOLOGY
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MONITORING TODDLERS AND TECHNOLOGY
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Introduction:
Monitoring toddlers and technology has been a public concern since it causes the
impairment associated with social skills of children, affects the learning and developmental
phase and induces the array of health issues which disrupts the quality of life. Although
technology can be a potential educational tool for children, it has the ability to disrupt the quality
present and future life of children (Mooney, McElnay & Donnelly, 2015). The focus has been
given to this developmental stage because the children of this age rapidly develop the habits
from surroundings. This paper will provide a rationale behind choosing this topic and strategies
to address the issue.
Discussion:
Rationale:
The rationale behind choosing this issue is that the technology affected the normal
development of a significant number of children. The activity of healthy kid report in Canada
highlighted that the children of 3 to 5years old spent average 2 hours with screens and only 15%
of infants of preschool able to reduce the screen time to less than 1 hours. In 2012, the average
child in between 8 months to 8 years is exposed to the television for 4 hours. As discussed by
Lestantri et al. (2017), children who are constantly exposed to technology tend to interact less
with their peers. They experience the issues associated with the sleeping pattern and early
childhood physical and cognitive development. Moreover, childhood obesity, one of the public
health concerns are observed in children because children are spending more time with
technology and less time in physical activities such as playing. Consequently, children of 2 to 7