It may be an easy task for you to feed your child by showing him your mobile phone, but it has a very bad effect on his mind and brain. According to a study, 90 percent of children under 2 years of age eat food while looking at smartphones. Most of the mothers also give the mobile phone to their child when he does not eat food and they feel that their work has become easier.

Nidhi Raj, who works in an IT company in Bengaluru, is the mother of a one-and-a-half-year-old child. She says that she tries her best not to give mobile to her child while feeding. When she does not give a mobile to her child for two to four days, a lot of changes are seen in the child. He learns a lot of new things. If you are also doing this to make your work easier, then be careful. This can gradually become a habit of the child and can completely spoil his physical and mental health.

What effect does it have
When a child eats food while looking at the mobile, he does not understand how hungry he is and just keeps on eating, due to which the child sometimes overeats and becomes ill.
A child does not enjoy eating by eating while looking at the mobile. He cannot understand whether the food is good or not. Many times he does not even remember what he had eaten.
After becoming friends with Mobile, he does not want his parents. While the mother is feeding him, he does not even look at her but scrolls on the mobile, which is fatal for his mental development.
Apart from this, the metabolism of the child is also weak, because he does not chew the food but swallows it as soon as it is put in the mouth. Due to this, his digestive power becomes weak.
Not only this, but when a child looks at the phone closely, it weakens his eyes and also has a bad effect on his brain.
Along with this, the child's creativity also decreases. Because of looking at the mobile he gets cut off from outside things. Whatever he learns, he learns from mobile only. He does not get a chance to learn social things.

Know the solution also
If parents use mobile all the time in front of children or have mobile in their hands while eating, then children will also see and learn the same. So improve yourself first.
Always try something new in food, so that children also enjoy it and enjoy the food.
Let them play with the food so that they can understand the things about the food.


Interact with children at mealtime, show them different colors, and ask them about food. With this, they will enjoy eating and will be able to identify the taste, color, aroma, and food.
Apart from this, it is said that whatever you do during pregnancy, it affects the child and he does the same things more. In such a situation, minimize the use of gadgets or screens during pregnancy.

Hindering development
Dr. Nausheen Siddiqui, Senior Resident in the Department of Pediatrics, Jag Pravesh Chandra Hospital, Delhi, says that nowadays due to excessive screen time, many types of diseases are increasing in children, such as autism and ADHD i.e. problems like lack of attention. Parents may face dire consequences in future if they feed food by showing their mobile phones. This will stunt the child's development and he will become addicted to looking at the mobile. So much so that he will start finding this way of eating food correct and he will start considering the virtual world as more true than the social world. Therefore, the younger you try to reduce their screen time, the better it will be for the child's development.
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