3 days no gadget for my son - giving him time to play his toys and learn how to write

Hello hivers! It's been a while since I last shared an article about motherhood. Anyway, my topic for today is how I tried to remove the gadget from my son.

He's been using gadgets since he was months old till he became a toddler.

I can say that there are positive and negative effects of being independent on gadgets at an early age.

My son's first language is English and that's because of watching YouTube videos most of the time. He learns a lot from watching educational videos every day.

At the age of 3, he already knows the alphabet, colors, shapes, animal sounds, and numbers.

Then I tried to download about names of the countries, the solar system, the days of the week and what time is it.

I was amazed by how fast he could remember and memorize those kinds of stuff without me teaching him.

It's been a year since the time I took him with me to work every day. I decided to do that so I could monitor him daily. Like what the food he eats.

Since he is an asthmatic kid I choose to let him use his Tablet or his iPod daily. He is a very active kid and he wants to play actively but since I don't want his asthma to attack more often so I just let him watch videos on his tablet or iPod if I am busy with my work.

That's his daily routine, if he gets bored watching videos he will play with his toys.

However, there was a time that he learned bad behavior. Then I checked what kind of videos he usually watches on Yt Kids, then I discovered that he is been watching those siblings making faces or kind of like they were fighting. I have to block those kinds of channels so my son won't learn any bad behavior anymore.

Moreover, I wonder why my son has no patience, especially on playing with his toys, he easily gets mad when things go wrong. He also doesn't have the patience even to ask for something from us like asking for milk.

He is a sweet kind of kid and he even knows how to try to change my mood whenever I am mad by saying "I love you Mom" or he will kiss me. But mostly he can't control his emotions.

One time I was browsing Facebook and I saw a video about iPad babies or techy babies. While watching the video, I can say that it says a lot about the behavior of my son who is also a techy baby.

After watching that video I decided that I would try to remove gadgets from my son. I will not let him use his iPod anymore since his tablet is broken already.

When we arrive home from work. He was looking for his iPod. I told him no more iPod because the battery of your iPod is broken. Well, it's not broken but I have to make stories so he won't cry and force me to have his iPod though I won't give in whenever he cries if he wants something. I told him I didn't have money to buy a new battery for his iPod. I guess he already understands my point that he can't use his iPod anymore.

Day 1- Saturday

He still tried to look for his iPod yet I told him the same reason and luckily he wouldn't cry or force me to have it. I let him practice writing instead. I printed his whole name and let him do the letter tracing. He is too lazy to do it at first but then I just have to reward him after he practices writing. I will give him food or drinks that he likes.
What I notice is he had a hard time holding the pencil properly though he's been playing with ball pens, crayons, or colored pencils already.
He only knows how to write the letter H and draw a circle without me teaching him. But in terms of letter tracing he finds it hard to finish even one letter. He was too lazy to do it. Like his fingers can't even hold the pencil properly.
One thing noticed about my son is he is like a perfectionist. Whenever he tries to follow the line of the letters and it won't go properly he will say hmmm not good then he will erase it and will do it again.

I thought he would not survive the day without any gadgets but he did and I was so happy.

Day 2 -Sunday

I was at work yesterday and he was with me with her sister at work the whole day. On day one he also tried to ask for his phone but then I still told him the same reason and he just nodded.
I decided to buy him a kitchen set of toys at the market since I know he loves to pretend to cook just like how he usually does at home. He was so happy to have his first kitchen set of toys.
He plays it most of his time at work and sometimes he will play with his other toys.

When we arrive home from work he remembers his iPod again. I can't blame him since we were the ones who let him have that habit of using his iPod whenever he wanted it.

Day 3- Monday

Today is the 3rd day of not using any gadgets. You might be wondering how he managed not to borrow our cell phones, the answer is we didn't let him use our phones even before. He knows that it's not his phone and it's not a toy for him to play with or use. So even if he knows that we have our phones he never asks us to borrow them. Even if he sees my phone on the table we will get it and give it back to me. Even his sister will not allow him to use my phone by saying Ate(elder sister) don't touch it, it's not yours.

While writing this article my son is still asleep.

Ending thoughts

I've been trying to control the screen time of my son before but I always failed to do so and I am happy this time that I finally removed gadgets from his daily life.

It will be the perfect time for him to learn how to write since he will be in school next school year. I want him to learn how to write his name and other school activities. I will try my best to spend time teaching him those kinds of stuff.

I guess that is all for today and I hope I have shared something that you can learn from or might as well you can share about your experiences also a mom. Thank you for reading and coming this far. God bless!

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