Is it Necessary to Ban Gadget in Early Childhood?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210322.057How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gadget, early childhood, parental mediation strategy

Abstract

The advancement of gadget has progressed rapidly in the past 20 years, turning gadget as a basic need for everyone without exception, including to early childhood. However, the excessive use of gadgets may cause negative impacts. While parents cannot completely ban early childhood from using gadgets, they can apply mediation strategy to the children as gadget is indeed necessary for them to adapt in this digital era. The purpose of this article was to know the impact and mediation strategy of the parents towards the use of gadgets in early childhood. This article was made based on the review of some literature regarding the impact of gadget usage and parental mediation strategy from the perspective of parental mediation theory. The result of this article provides information to parents that there are three mediation strategies and positive impact from use of gadget on early childhood.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Novi Hidayati
AU  - Badru Zaman
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/24
TI  - Is it Necessary to Ban Gadget in Early Childhood?
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 270
EP  - 273
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210322.057
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210322.057
ID  - Hidayati2021
ER  -