Modern children do not represent the life without computer. They communicate with its help, play games, learn the world, perform homeworks, read, draw and study. As a result the child can spend at the computer the whole day. It is impossible to allow it at all.
The computer can replace to the child of teachers, friends, mentors and even parents today. The websites, forums, social networks, game portals – all this is created to take as much as possible time of the modern person. Children at whom there is just a lot of free time will see off at computers till several hours. As a result their health suffers: the sight worsens, the inactive way of life slows down physical development of the child, and the low intellectual level of content of the majority of the websites has negative effect on intelligence. In order that to prevent it, parents have to disaccustom the child to spend much time at the computer.
Correctly distribute time
For a start establish the rule, how many hours in day to the child it is possible to carry out at the computer. It is necessary to consider that total time in front of any screen – the computer or the TV – for the child at elementary school has to be no more than 2 hours a day, in high and high school – no more than 3 hours. Proceeding from it, agree with the child, what is the time at him will leave on telecasts and how many on computer games and virtual communication. From now on he has to follow this rule always, regardless of that school day or day off, bad mood at parents or good. It is impossible to prolong time at the computer for good marks or the washed dishes, think up for this purpose other encouragement. On a game health of the child which the computer does not improve at all.
To track as the younger school student carries out this rule, it is possible not to allow it to turn on the computer while there are no parents the house and to allow to use the device only under their supervision. With more adult child it is possible just to agree and rely on his honesty, having warned about consequences of violation of such rule. It is useful to install the program of parental control on the computer to limit access for the child to the websites, harmful to it.
Set an example
Besides, parents do not need to set children a bad example and to sit at the computer for hours if it is not about work. Importance of an example in this question is very big, if parents since early childhood find time for the kid, to spend free evenings behind books or a useful hobby, then and the child will not get used to the computer. Children find in it the only interest only when their parents do not pay them enough attention and do not show different ways to occupy the leisure.