Infobesity In Kids

By Vidushi Parekh

INFOBESITY : the condition of continually consuming large amount of information,creative coinage infobesity is a blend based on words information and obesity (condition of being overweight in a way which is unhealthy)

It's a newly discovered disorder among kids and is growing day by day at rapid pace as it is said excess of anything is disastrous and dangerous in every aspect.

Alike our body our brain has some extent of capacity as well and when a person get lured by myraid of information,the condition arouses ,the epidemic of information obesity is quite alarming as the person gets easily lured by the bulk of information,butis not able to organise and process it .

EFFECTS OF INFOBESITY

What happen when we overwater a plant or feed fat load of information to a device ,the plant dies and device hangs or slow downNow, imagine impact of overloading information can have on human brain

1 . BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES

It makes child aggressive, fragile and irritable,this is because they are not able to prioritise ,process the emotions , continuously glueing to devices leads brain to send fatigue and tiredness signals without any physical activity

2.PRIORTIZING INFORMATION

When we continue eating after our stomach is full it leads to stomach upset ,sameway children overloaded with information tends to loose focus,often doesn't differentiate what does matter and what doesn't?

3.LACK OF DECISION MAKING POWER

Just feeding brain with information and not processing it results in indecisiveness to pick what is right or wrong which in turn generally end up going with bad decisions as they seems easy and short cut to problems

STEPS TO TACKLE INFORMATION OBESITY

1. Limit the screen time

2.keep an eye on social media platforms they are following so they don't fall prey to harmful content

3.Let the brain rest and process the amount of information perceived

4. Don't pressurize child to study when they are clearly exhausted and tired

5. Clear the confusion in simple way regarding any topic which is thriving in their mind

REMEDIES

1. Keep the things simple by discussing what they have learnt

2. Keep it relevant : give them time to process information by discyaboit what they have watched, why they watch it ,what is best thing about the programme they are watching

It will help in two ways

Firstly we will get picture of what your kid is watching,they will process and think on worth of what they are watching.

By Vidushi Parekh