iPad as early education or damage baby vision

"Using iPad to teach children to recognize animals, tell stories to children, attractive forms of rich content, why not choose it?" With Apple's various electronic products in the domestic hot, many young mother tide boom dad keen to use iPad to teach early. However, experts pointed out that using the iPad as an early childhood education machine is not indispensable, but it must be moderate, otherwise it is very likely that the purpose of education has not been achieved, but it has damaged the baby's intelligence and vision.

Li Mingwu, deputy chief physician of Department of Ophthalmology at People's Hospital of Peking University, said that the visual acuity of two-year-old children is not yet mature, and they usually have to limit their time watching TV. Many images of the iPad are brightly colored and the visual stimuli are too strong. If you look at them for too long, you may cause your child's optic nerve fatigue and even induce myopia.

In addition to poor visual development of children, often using an iPad to teach children early on the children's intellectual development may not be a good thing. Liu Zhaoqiu, director of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the First Affiliated Hospital of Tsinghua University, said that for children, the iPad is a graphical electronic product. If you are exposed to it for a long time, it may cause obstacles to your child's future learning. If video education on children through the iPad will also affect the development of young children's attention, and television, its touch-screen operation is faster, so many information children too late to think can only be passively accepted, in the long run, the child may lose the ability to think .

Liu Zhaoqiu stated that there are many children's apps on the iPad. Compared to ordinary books, the information is more informative and the form is more attractive. But in the final analysis, this type of electronic product used for early childhood education still belongs to video early education, and parents need to learn from children. From the perspective of visual development and intellectual development, do not allow children to contact for too long, so as not to affect their growth and development.