It has now become the fad for parents to bequeath smartphones to their children these days. Everyone wants his child to belong. Parents should, however, watch it, as giving a smartphone to a growing kid can be counter-productive and boomerang in the life of such kids.
For one, it might affect their school performance negatively as those smartphones have the capability of being loaded with a lot of game apps which these kids might be addicted to and play all day instead of concentrating on their school work!
Another negative and deadly impact that these smartphones can have on the kids is that they stand the risk of encountering child predators online. Always have it at the back of your mind that child predators are always ready to lure your child, take advantage of him/her, thus, putting your child into serious danger online. Your child’s encounter with a child predator online is capable of leading to you or your child being kidnapped, robbed, defiled, among others.
The reason this can easily happen is because, children, in their young minds, cannot easily discern when, or who to divulge details about themselves as well as those of members of their family and when to keep mum. — Continue Reading
