Natural Child Today TV and Computer Addiction lifetime

Jakarta, busy parents often allow their children to find entertainment in watching TV or playing computer games. This raises fears that today's young people at risk of dependence on TV and computer screens all his life.

The problem, psychologists have warned that a growing addiction can cause damage to the body, especially the brain.

The latest statistics show that children and adolescents aged 12-15 years spent an average of more than 6 hours a day in front of the screen.

What is striking is the figure illustrates only the activity of watching TV at home alone, not including the use of computers in school or gadgets such as smartphones in spare time.

Associated with it, a scientist from England, Dr. Aric Sigman wants to be banned from TV for toddlers and kids get to watch TV in a rational allocation. He also intends to forbid parents to use technology as a means of 'parenting' which is suppose to give the effect of poor health for their children.

Dr. Sigman and studies of other researchers have also linked the amount of time children spend in front of the screen with health problems, including obesity, high cholesterol and blood pressure, difficulty noticed something, and decreased ability to count and read, as well as sleep disorders and autism.

It could have been caused by simple problems such as overeating and lack of exercise or hormonal changes that impact on the reduced ability to concentrate and pay attention to something.

The study also showed that brain responses to computer games as well as brain responses to drugs and alcohol.

Dr. Sigman plans to proclaim the results of his research was in the Royal College of Paediatrics conference and Child Health in Glasgow.

"Regardless of whether children or adults who are addicted to the screen technology or not, many of them are too much use of technology and have an unhealthy addiction to it," he said as quoted by dailymail, Tuesday (29/05/2012) .

Dr. Sigman also do not want to put a TV in the bedroom because he believed the children whose brains are still developing should not be allowed to watch TV at all.

In children aged 3-7 years, ration watching TV and playing computer should be limited to 1.5 hours per day while children older than 2 hours a day is limited.

Dr. Sigman said that "passive parenting" or passive child care in the face of the new media environment such as this is a subtle form of neglect on children.

Many studies found that parental rules and restrictions on hours and hours watching TV and playing computer games on children effectively reduce bad habits, like not putting a TV or computer in his bedroom.

Dr. Sigman is not the first scientists to express concern about this. Previous Mental Health Foundation found that the obsession with the young generation of social networking sites has created a generation that does not have good relationships with family and friends.

Even one of the leading scientists in the UK, Susan Greenfield, has repeatedly warned that social networking sites can be harmful to children's brains because of shortening attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people become more selfish.

The constant use of computers also make the brain a 'childish', causing difficulties for children to learn something from his mistakes.