What should I do if my 11-year-old child has poor eyesight? Don\’t let this hurt your child again

It’s hard to believe that an 11-year-old child’s eyesight is as bad as that of a 60-year-old man, and the culprit is actually excessive use of mobile phones! 11-year-old Xiao Xin suddenly suffered from stinging and burning eyes recently and was unable to open them. After being sent to the doctor for treatment, it was learned that the meibomian gland function was severely impaired, leading to dry eye syndrome. Sadly, there is no complete recovery. Xiao Xin\’s mother said that she recently discovered that Xiao Xin spends a lot of time playing with her mobile phone when she goes to her room to do homework every day. After turning off the lights at night, they still hide in bed and play. This reminds me of a time during the Spring Festival when a friend brought his son Xixi to our house to play. The child, who was only over 9 years old, was already a typical \”head-down person\”. When going to the park, Xixi didn\’t look like a child having fun at all. Instead, she acted like an adult, letting her sister play in the playground while she played with her mobile phone on the stool. My friend was very helpless and said that there was nothing he could do. He just thought mobile phones were fun and was not interested in anything else. Nowadays, children are playing mobile phones at an increasingly younger age and more frequently, which is worrying. Many parents use mobile phones as electronic nannies for their children, but they don’t know how harmful excessive use of mobile phones can be to their children! Recently, Zhejiang issued a solicitation draft for the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents, proposing that the use of APPs to assign homework is strictly prohibited, the use of electronic products for teaching should not exceed 30% of the total teaching time, and the myopia rate of children will be included in the school assessment! According to surveys, the overall myopia rate among Chinese students is as high as 88.5%, and is growing at a rapid rate of 8% per year. The proportion of blindness caused by high myopia has soared 11 times compared with the previous five years. Children are in a sensitive period of visual system development. High-energy blue light from electronic products can penetrate the cornea and lens, causing a series of chain damage. This degree of damage reaches 80%-90% for children aged 6-19 years old, and is close to 100% for children under 6 years old. In addition to affecting children\’s vision, excessive use of mobile phones also has the following hazards: severe deformation of the cervical and lumbar vertebrae. Some time ago, I saw some news: 4-year-old boy Xiao Lei used to tilt his neck for a while and kept complaining of pain. His mother took him to the hospital for examination and found that Xiaolei’s cervical vertebrae had degenerated to the point where he looked like a 50-year-old man! A 10-year-old girl\’s cervical vertebra was \”broken\”; a 7-year-old boy\’s neck was so severe that he could not move at all… and the culprit was playing with his phone with his head down for a long time! In a program on the Metropolis Channel, a doctor pointed out that the incidence of lumbar disc herniation among teenagers aged 10-14 today is higher than that among the elderly because of playing with mobile phones. Especially during winter and summer vacations, the number of people coming to see a doctor increases significantly. If not paid attention to, it may even lead to paralysis. Radiation affects children\’s brain development. People\’s Daily Online conducted a survey: What are you most worried about about the harm of mobile phones to children? 30% of parents chose \”radiation affects health\”. This is by no means an unfounded worry. A test by the University of Clermont-Ferrand showed that children\’s brains have small skulls and thin braincases. When using mobile phones, the brain absorbs 60% more electromagnetic waves from mobile phones than adults. Dr. Gerard Kedu of the University of Warwick in the UK warned: Mobile phone radiation will destroy the normal function of the child\’s nervous system. What’s even more frightening is that 9-10-year-old children who use mobile phones for more than 7 hours a day show signs of premature thinning of the cerebral cortex. Really thoughtfulExtremely frightened! Children\’s competitiveness is weakened. Dimitri Christakis, director of the Child Health Behavior and Development Research Center at Seattle Children\’s Hospital in the United States, pointed out that children who watch electronic screens for three hours a day at the age of 1 are more likely to have attention problems at the age of 7 than the average child. 30%. In 2010, \”Pediatrics\” published a follow-up study of 1,323 middle school students. The results of the 13-month follow-up survey are thought-provoking: children who are exposed to electronic products for a long time have more attention problems. This also means that children’s learning efficiency will be lower. The world\’s top medical journal \”The Lancet\” published a study: Children who use mobile phones for less entertainment time, spend more time outdoors, and get enough sleep get higher results in cognitive ability tests than other children. Factors such as attention problems, cognitive abilities, and Internet addiction will seriously affect children\’s learning abilities and results, greatly weakening their competitiveness in entering society. A seemingly small mobile phone can do great harm to a child’s health and may even affect a child’s life! The primary school student Ye Zijian in \”Tales of Youth\” said something on the rooftop that made many people cry: When I was a child, I thought that mobile phones were my parents\’ children. Every time I looked up at them, they were always staring at their phones. When my parents wanted me to calm down and stop causing trouble, they would throw their phones to me and let me play alone. He shouted aggrievedly: You adults are always like this. In order to keep us quiet now, you use your mobile phone to stabilize us. When we grow up and become addicted to mobile phones, you will think that it is the mobile phones that have delayed us. But have you ever thought about who put the mobile phone into my hand when I was a child? Who has given up on my love and companionship? The reporter interviewed a third-grade boy: Why do you like playing with mobile phones so much? Unexpectedly, the boy suddenly started sobbing and cried: \”I don\’t want to look at my phone, but their adults look at it every day and at any time. If I don\’t play with my phone, I feel lonely and bored.\” How many parents think they are loving their children, but they The child can\’t feel it. How many parents think that giving their children a mobile phone is a sign of satisfying and loving their children, but they don’t know that what their children really desire is never a mobile phone. There is a sentence in \”Education to Happiness\”: The most important thing for parents is to devote time, energy, patience, respect and love to their children. Every child needs parents to take responsibility and help their children not to be addicted to mobile phones so that they can live a healthy life. All this needs to start from the parents. In the past two months, the first thing my 5-year-old daughter did after getting up every day was clamoring to play with an iPad. I realized that it was because of this period that I checked my phone every day. After learning from the pain, I began to adjust. I have cleaned up the unimportant WeChat groups and apps, and I no longer can’t help but open them and hang out. When I am with my daughter, I will set my phone to silent and put it in the drawer so that I don’t take it out of my pocket to look at it at any time. For work that requires my mobile phone to be handled, I use my daughter’s sleeping time to concentrate on it and handle it efficiently. If there is something special that needs to be done using my mobile phone, I will tell her: \”Mom loves you, but now Mom has an urgent matter.\”It needs to be dealt with, and I\’ll be with you after it\’s done. \”Every action of the parents will shine into the child\’s heart and be reflected on the child. Two days ago, my daughter said to me: \”Mom, I am no longer addicted to iPad!\” At that moment, I almost cried. Nowadays, she can\’t even think of using her iPad for several days, and she still finds it a lot of fun no matter what she plays. A boy on Zhihu thanked his father for giving him a golden and beautiful childhood. His father likes reading, playing football, painting, swimming, playing the piano, and collecting specimens. He also takes him to read, learn, and play together. His childhood life was colorful, and when he grew up, he had many hobbies. While his classmates were obsessed with mobile games and online chatting, he felt that the world outside the mobile phone was more exciting. In such a family atmosphere, children\’s hearts will naturally not be captured by mobile phones. Of course, electronic products such as mobile phones are not a scourge, and it is impossible for children to completely stop using them. Sun Li once said: \”Let the mobile phone become a tool of life, not the whole life.\” She downloaded the story and children\’s song APP on her mobile phone, allowing her two children to watch it for about 10 minutes a day, listening to stories and learning children\’s songs. I feel a lot better. Parents should set usage time and control viewing content based on their children\’s age and actual situation, so that mobile phones will not become daggers to stab their children. What children can\’t live without is never their mobile phones, but their parents\’ care. In the program \”Hundred Days of Family Education\”, teacher Zhao Jihua said: There is a parent\’s shadow behind a child\’s behavior. Parents, please put down your cell phones. Tell your child that I am listening to you, I am paying attention to you, and I will accompany you to do it. If parents set a good example, spend time with their children, and guide their children carefully, how can their children become addicted to mobile phones? Every child cherished by his parents will have a colorful childhood and a bright and brilliant future.