Nowadays, some of the parents gave their kids, who are
about under 12 years old such a sophisticated gadget, even to their preschooler
kid. As you can see in some public areas such as mall, café, restaurant, etc
there are so many kid holding a sophisticated gadget such as iPad, tab,
smartphone, etc. They are about 7-12
years old. Even there’s a 4 years old kid who had already ‘play’ that
sophisticated gadget. They usually don’t communicate with others, because they
are just focusing on their iPad or any gadget that they hold.
The function of a gadget for example, cellphone is
actually to do the long distance communicating with others in an easy way. For
the kids, they can use their cellphone to communicate maybe with their parents
if there’s something that they would say to their parents, ask for picking up
them when they had finished their class, or maybe, for the elementary
schoolers, they can use their cellphone to call or text their friend—asking
about their tasks or homework or anything.
But now, the parents give them some sophisticated gadget
which allow them to join social network, or maybe many of kids love the games,
or anything that makes the kids love to ‘play’ with their gadget rather than
communicate in the ‘real’ world. It can cause the decreases of communication
abilities, decreases the focus of a kid on anything, or the most dangerous effect is, they could
be an anti-social in the ‘real’ world.
In my opinion, that’s okay giving a kid a gadget. But just
a simple cellphone which can call and text only. I think the ideal time to give
the kid such a sophisticated gadget is when they are already in junior high
school, but the parents should still give some ‘guidance’ to their kid, not to
‘play’ their gadget all the time. They should communicate with the others in
the ‘real’ life. Parents should also introduce some ‘real’ game which is
different from the games on their gadget. I think, Indonesian Traditional games
is one of the right choices. For example, there are some games which tells
about cooperation, like galasin
maybe.
