Danger: Kids, smartphone, and the Internet II

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I started an article a few days ago about how kids addiction to smart phones is getting out of hand, how it has affected their learning and I promised to write the concluding part of the article today which has to do with outside how it is affecting their learning

Kid's exposure to the Internet and smart phones without their parent's supervision can be harmful to them in so many ways, most of these effects sometimes become an addiction or even affect their journey in life.

Pornography

Watching pornography is one thing that kids get attracted to once they reach puberty, they easily lay their hands on the porn video and images which triggers their urge for sex. In the end, it becomes uncontrollable, they begin to have this sexual anxiety that can make them get wild as they grow.

Gone are the days when humans reach puberty at the age of 18 years, kids today reach puberty at the age of 12 or even less. They see themselves as grown-up because of their growth, size, or whatsoever as to do with puberty getting into their head, and at that point, they start demanding privacy which allows them to do or check out silly things.

In 2019, I saw statistics about how the pornography industry has grown huge with teenagers bypassing the security which has to do with just input age above 18 years when they are barely 14 years.

Evil Virtual Friends and Bad Influences.

This is another thing kids get exposed to when they are been allowed to roam the internet without supervision. Unlike in reality where you can restrict your kids to who they can hang out with, it is difficult to know everyone your kids interact with within the virtual world.

There are lots of adults pretending to be kids in the virtual world, they look for kids they can brainwash and make them victims of numerous evil acts out there. Some of these kids are unfortunate and became a monster they weren't born to be.


In 2011, a girl of fifteen was abducted in the community where I grew up. She was missing for over three months before she was found sick and pregnant but fortunately, the culprit was apprehended and brought to justice. She explained how she has been going to the cyber cafe to talk to a guy she met online and she uses her mom's java phone to access her Facebook secretly.

They planned to meet and she didn't inform anyone, the guy lied that he has strike a deal with his dad driver to pick her up and she felt comfortable not knowing that the grown-up man of over 40 years of age was the real face behind the 18-year-old guy she has been talking to. The man acted as a driver to pick her up and talking to the man was all she remembered in the old car he brought, she woke up in the middle of nowhere.

She was forced to do crazy things and it affected her life completely even though she was able to put the broken piece of her life together and move on.


Aside from this true life story, there are lots of kids that fall victims as prey regardless of their gender. Kids are been lured into drugs, sex, cultism, and other crazy things through the internet and it gets disastrous when they get addicted

Some parents don't know they are at risk of some things with giving their kids excess freedom to the Internet, how is that even possible?

Imagine there is a hacker or let me use the word stranger trying to access your privacy and has been finding it difficult, do you know they can get your kids to give them everything they want through chatting and simple interaction.

Kids are easily manipulated and out of ignorance, they can make terrible mistakes like releasing passwords, giving out credit card codes, sending information about the family, giving out the house security details, and others.


No doubt, the smartphone, and internet have been very good learning tools for kids especially during the pandemic when they have to learn mostly through the internet but how much freedom do you give them to check out or explore the internet.

Sometimes it is not the kid's fault, there are times when they just click on some illegal ads that take them to things that trigger their curiosity. As parents, we have a lot of work to do and we must be very smart and observant of the things our kids find interest in when handling a smartphone or surfing the internet.

They can't always have what they want, set rules, inculcate discipline that has to do with restrictions to smart phones and the Internet, remember that whatever they do or become will either be a joy or pain in our heart.

Doing the right thing with them also means preparing for our future. Thanks.

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I strongly agree with you sir. Our children nowadays strongly need guidance when it comes to using smartphones and internet. They usually copy what they saw in the internet. I heard many young ones who unstoppably cussing because they learn it on different videos they watched. This kind of behavior is very alarming.

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3 years ago

That's true because kids easily learn the things they see and at the end, they want to do the same not knowing if it good or bad.

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3 years ago

I agree mostly kid fell in trap coz of adds and parents responsibility is to prepare there mind before giving mobile to them

But most of parent can't do and guide their child and this is how he ruin his life.

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3 years ago

Parents must be ready to be on their toes when giving their kids mobiles, the kids are been exposed to a new world where they will need someone to guide them.

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3 years ago

This is a very beautiful article that addresses a very important issue in our society of today. Indeed, the liberty with which kids interact with the internet and social media nowadays is becoming worrisome. I really fear for the coming generation because these youngsters have been exposed to so many unhealthy things like pornography, cults, etc that you've mentioned. I really hope it can truly be curbed.

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3 years ago

Our kids needs our strong parental supervision ,internet will help them to learn ,but we have to guide them always.

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3 years ago

Parental guidance is needed when it comes to cases like this truth, whatever the kids becomes remains the fault of the parent.

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3 years ago

Truth. Strong parental supervision is what the children need for them not to be lured into bad habits while using technology.

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3 years ago

They are truly been lured into bad act due to what they learn and the friend they meet on the internet, it is left for the parent to keep a close track on them.

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3 years ago

Internet indeed have been influencing kids in terms of the way they move,the way they talk and everything they do.many kids changes behavior because of what they saw on internet.

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3 years ago

That's true, the kids learn a lot of things and start exhibiting this behaviors.

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3 years ago

The Internet is no doubt a good thing but without proper guidance, it will become a tool for destruction.

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3 years ago

Well said sir, parents just need to step up how they track the kids engagement on the internet.

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3 years ago

Sometimes I think even parents should be supervised on the internet. Who does this, maybe the parents of the parents do it :D

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3 years ago

You are right about that, these kids might learn some of these dirty things from their parent phone.

Imagine parents have porn and nude on phones, the kids would take it into their head and start seeking for answers and ideas .

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3 years ago

As a teacher I can only wholeheartedly agree with your notions. Smartphones are such a distraction, cause a shorter attention span and hide a world of internet bullying, insecurities etc. We have given the current generation smartphones but no guidelines on how to deal with them. I see a lot of parents that don't monitor their kids use of smartphones at all and even let their kids take them up to bed leading to lack of sleep and them interacting with each other 24/7

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3 years ago

To me, I feel some parents are just been careless about some things despite knowing that it could end up badly for the kids.

These kids end up been influenced somehow and things get out of hand before we know it.

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3 years ago

This is why in my school, we do not allow them to come to schoolool with phones and even go to the extent of informing their parents not to buy them phones. They have access to every corners of the internet and so, giving them phones will cause them to do what is not good.

Some of them even get involved in boyfriends and girlfriends of a thing.

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3 years ago

The issue of boyfriend and girlfriend is now a trend and you will see little kids talking about relationships. I do ask my myself, where in the world did they get all this silly ideas from.

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3 years ago

Poor girl, she allowed herself to be used and taken advantage of because of bad influence and wrong use of smartphones. These children with smartphones now thinks they are big enough to handle things on their own and would keep doing things out of their parents reach and it is affecting them in a negative way. Parents have a lot to do.

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3 years ago

They don't know what life is, they don't have any experience to guide them. I remember when I was younger, my mom would tell me and my siblings stories that would create fear in us just for us not to try some things and it worked for us.

Parents have lots to do and we must be disciplined when it comes to handling kids issues

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