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"The issue is not only the age, but also the level of maturity and personal responsibility of the child," says Dr. Mali Danino, an educational consultant and CEO of the Nitzan Association. "The parent has the responsibility to teach the child to use the smartphone properly, to recognize the dangers inherent in this device. The goal is to develop in the child a kind of 'red color' alert, to avoid mirrors that could cause harm with irreversible consequences."
Dr. Danino emphasizes that “when we buy a child a bike we will take care of auxiliary wheels and a helmet, teach the child at his own pace, be by his side, encourage him to gain confidence, drive carefully, learn the rules and eventually know how to ride them independently.
"When we buy our children a phone, do we prepare a training plan? Do we teach them what to watch out for? And most importantly, do we teach them that a word written is engraved in the heart of the other party? What happens when everyone decides to exclude a child from the group? "Taking a stand? Fearful? It is our job as parents to be involved, to take a stand, to be on the pulse and be interested in what is happening on the social network, no less than what happens in a school that is sometimes just the tip of the iceberg."
The truth is that it also does not matter which smartphone is a Galaxy iPhone Shiomi or any other company.
Parents need to be present
"The issue of screens is only a small part of our position as parents in front of children in matters of boundaries, education and parental presence," says Osnat Garty, a clinical psychologist for children and youth and director of the Gerty Center for Emotional Therapy for Children. "Children live in a world that is developing technologically at a dizzying pace and there are social norms that it is important to allow them to be a part of.
