Research Article
How Parents Can Reduce the Negative Impact of Media Devices on Young Children? An Overview of Preliminary Guidance for Parents
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.3-11-2018.2285668, author={Nasriah Nasriah and Santa Murni A. Situmorang and Elvi Mailani and Srinahyanti Srinahyanti}, title={How Parents Can Reduce the Negative Impact of Media Devices on Young Children? An Overview of Preliminary Guidance for Parents}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference of Engineering and Implementation on Vocational Education (ACEIVE 2018), 3rd November 2018, North Sumatra, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ACEIVE}, year={2019}, month={7}, keywords={media devices young children negative impact parent's role}, doi={10.4108/eai.3-11-2018.2285668} }- Nasriah Nasriah
Santa Murni A. Situmorang
Elvi Mailani
Srinahyanti Srinahyanti
Year: 2019
How Parents Can Reduce the Negative Impact of Media Devices on Young Children? An Overview of Preliminary Guidance for Parents
ACEIVE
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.3-11-2018.2285668
Abstract
Very young children recently have engaged with media devices such as TV set, computer and mobile devices. Playing with all devices is the most attractive activity than interacting with their environment. They look like a quickly learners regarding devices use than their parents and the media devices used by young children is rapidly increases year by year. Many researchers agree that media devices children use have an impact both positive and negative on development and learning. Beside the all benefit of devices for children, parents must also pay attention with the negative impact possibility in devices children use. Therefore, parents play very important role in their children. Parents should be able to encourage their children of avoiding an inappropriate media device use in order to reduce negative impact that can affect their growth and development. The aim of this article is to review some literature about negative impact of young children media device use, suggest preliminary guidance for parents and recommend the future research need.
