Feeding your child by showing a mobile phone can be an easy task for you, but it has a very bad effect on his mind. According to a study, 90 percent of children under the age of 2 eat food while watching a smartphone. Most mothers also give mobile phones to their children when he does not eat food and they feel that their work has become easy.

Nidhi Raj, who works in an IT company in Bangalore, is the mother of a one-and-a-half-year-old child. She says that she tries her best not to give a mobile phone to her child while feeding him. When she does not give a mobile phone to her child for two to four days, then a lot of changes are seen in the child. He learns a lot of new things on his own. 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 is the effect
When a child eats while watching mobile, he is unable to understand how hungry he is and he just keeps on eating, due to which the child sometimes overeats and becomes ill.
The child does not enjoy eating while watching mobile. He is unable to understand whether the food is well cooked or not. Many times he does not even remember what he ate.
After becoming friends with Mobile, he does not need his parents. The mother is feeding him, he does not even look at her but scrolls the mobile, which is fatal for his mental development.
Apart from this, the metabolism of the child also becomes weak, because he does not chew the food, but swallows it as soon as it is put in the mouth. This weakens his digestive power.
Not only this, when the child looks at the phone closely, it weakens his eyes and also has a bad effect on the brain.
Along with this, the creativity of the child also decreases. Due to watching mobile, he gets cut off from the outside things. Whatever he learns, he learns from the mobile only. He does not get a chance to learn social things.

Know the solution too

If parents use mobile phones all the time in front of children or have mobile phones in their hands while eating, then children will also see and learn the same. So first improve yourself.

Try something new in food all the time, so that children also enjoy it, they enjoy the food.

Let them play with food so that they can also understand the food items.

Talk with children at mealtime, show them different colors, and ask them about food. This will make them enjoy eating and they will be able to identify the taste, color, smell, 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, use gadgets or screens as little as possible during pregnancy.

Obstacle in development
Dr. Nausheen Siddiqui, Senior Resident in the Department of Pediatrics at 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. attention deficit problems. Parents may have to face terrible consequences in the future by feeding their children while watching the mobile. This will stop the child's development and he will become addicted to watching mobile. He will even start feeling that this is the right way to eat and he will start considering the virtual world more real 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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