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