Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A My Child is Addicted to Gadgets

			What advice would you give
regarding children that are
		

			addicted to gadgets and refuse to
give them up?
		

			It's very difficult to say because
it depends on how they got into
		

			them in the first place. And,
		

			uh, personally, the way we have it
is that nobody is allowed to play
		

			this in the weekdays in our house,
they're only allowed to play for a
		

			certain number of hours in the
weekend, right, because you have
		

			to allow something because
otherwise, then they're gonna go
		

			somewhere else and try to find it
or buy something secretly and do
		

			it. So you have to just time it
and you have to be firm. I think
		

			the mistake here in many cases is
that the parents are not firmed.
		

			And they're crying about it. They
don't have any discipline in the
		

			house, they just allow them to do
whatever they want. And now
		

			they're crying about Oh, it's too
much. So you have to have some
		

			form of discipline. And at the end
of the day number two, in order to
		

			encourage them, you need to cite
reviews and statistics and studies
		

			and things about how harmful these
are. If your child children are
		

			old enough to read these things
and understanding for yourself,
		

			find them online and other places
and then make them read them and
		

			talk to them about it. But at the
end of the day, you need to put
		

			your foot down if you just totally
abandon unless it's like
		

			punishment for a while that's
different, but unless you totally
		

			if you totally banned him that's
very difficult to do and could be
		

			counterproductive. But the other
way is to just restrict their
		

			time. Just restrict their time.
That's the best way to do this.
		

			Allah