Leave the mobile aside: why you should set a time without a phone when you are with the baby

Can not disconnect from the phone and spend time in front of the screen even when you are with the kids?

A developmental and movement instructor from birth explains what happens to you and the baby when you are busy with the cell phone

Daniel Sarantsky, Jama app, in collaboration with JAMA

28/07/2021

Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 08:06 Updated: Sunday, 28 November 2021, 08:42

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What was not said about our phone addiction?

That we spend many hours of our day in it, that it is used by us for so many things that are not phone calls (the first function of the device, remember?), That it affects our relationship with the environment, our work output and more.

This article is going to touch on the impact of your "screen time" on your baby, and you as parents

Nili Moled Fortis, a developmental and movement instructor from birth, accompanies and supports postpartum mothers, sees fit to mention that the phone screen emits blue light that stimulates and floods stimuli, so this time The night before bed, that you show a child a song on YouTube is not the time to do so.

You want to put the house in a sleeping atmosphere, right?

The recommendation, then, is to avoid screens at least two hours before bed in the presence of the child.

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Regardless of the hour, when you are with the child and receive messages on the phone or have to respond to an alert that has jumped from one social network or another, you are already a little less with him.

If you get emails from work and at the same time try to spend time with the baby - it is already doomed to failure because you feel neither here nor there - ineffective, neither at work nor as parents.

Inefficiency, neither at work nor as parents.

Mother talking on the phone while playing with a girl (Photo: ShutterStock)

The main feeling you will have is frustration and even nerves, and these may erupt on the child who "interferes" with answering those who are looking for you.

When you are immersed with your eyes in the screen of the phone the child feels that you are not with him.

It craves true attention and eye contact, which is the foundation for learning social skills and emotional and cognitive development.

"But it's impossible without the phone"

So what should you do? Set times. Exactly so. During the day, set yourself a time when you are with the child and the phone - aside. At night, after you have already fallen asleep and the child has woken up to eat or for some other purpose, do not go to the phone to "pass the time". Quite a few parents turn to the phone only for a moment when the child is already asleep, and find themselves sucked into it, which prolongs the time of their notes and impairs the quality of sleep that will follow. So pay attention and be aware of your phone time, do not abstain but find the most appropriate time for it.

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