Influence of Gadget Usage on Children's Social-Emotional Development

DOI

10.2991/icece-17.2018.58How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gadget; social-emotional; children

Abstract

Gadget is part of ICT which is mostly used. One effect of gadget usage on children is self isolated from social life and lack of emotional management. It is resulted in lack of interaction and communication. Child become introvert and impatient, interpersonal problem and lack of interpersonal communication skill and keep them away from nature and surrounding environment. This paper reports based on literature review on how many parents are proud if they had bough expensive and sophisticated gadget for their children. This problem need to be studied because many children nowadays spend more time playing with gadget than playing with their peers and neighbors who can give socialization and emotional management experience. With various advantage and disadvantage of gadget, parents should be careful and wise in giving tool and facility which are suitable with their children needs to support children development. The conclusion lies in the role of parents in understanding the needs of children.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Mildayani Suhana
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TI  - Influence of Gadget Usage on Children's Social-Emotional Development
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 224
EP  - 227
SN  - 2352-5398
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