Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There’s no sense of something earned. I’m sorry, but when you’re 12, you don’t need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out: Ewan McGregor

The growing usage of mobile devices has generated worries about how exposure patterns may impair the mental health of children and teenagers. On the one hand, smartphone usage has various positives, including improved academic abilities, reading recognition, and increased vocabulary and expressive language. On the other side, excessive usage of mobile phones may result in mental or behavioural issues such as poor academic performance, diminished real-world social engagement, disregard for one’s personal life, relationship troubles, and mood dysregulation. Parents struggled to keep their children’s screen time under control. This was likely owing to their attempts to strike a delicate balance between personal and professional lives, as well as family duties. Parental monitoring of teenagers’ mobile phone use was critical to preventing them from becoming victims of mobile phone addiction.
The display of various types of mobile phones that incorporate Wi-Fi technology has expanded in recent years, resulting in a growth in popularity among people, especially youngsters, who possess such smart gadgets. Wi-Fi devices in mobile phones play an important role in transferring information and data to display photos, audio, and videos, as well as transfer applications from mobile devices that generate radio waves. The human body absorbs some of these radiated waves, particularly while making a phone call; the health and biological impacts are characterised as thermal or non-thermal. The warmth induced by the use of mobile phones occurs mostly in the head and neck area, which is effectively neutralised by the action of the circulatory system in the brain region. The reason behind this is that the frequency of radiation released by mobile devices ranges from 3 kHz to 300 GHz. Children frequently utilise Wi-Fi services available on mobile devices, and they are typically more exposed to the influence of radio microwaves because their skulls are thin and contain high fluid, their nervous system is still developing, and the increased activity of cell division.
Technology refers to the capacity to utilise, manage, comprehend, and access technology. Technology is the study of how humans change nature to fulfil their needs and goals. And serve their own ends. Technology is a Greek term that refers to art, artefacts, or crafts, as well as the process of creating or constructing. It is used to expand human demands and skills, as well as to satisfy human needs and desires. Technology entails the intentional use of knowledge, expertise, and resources to build processes and products that meet human requirements. People assess the disability of technology applications based on their influence on health, personal well-being, lifestyle, economy, and ecosystems. Message distribution mechanisms include postal systems, ratios, television, broadcasting companies, telephone, satellite, and computer.”
Technology means conveying a message through the postal system, radio, television, satellite, and computer to the world or other person. Education technology is a study of technology that provides an opportunity for students to learn about the processes and knowledge related to technologies that are needed to solve problems and extend human capabilities. Technology teaches a curriculum to the teacher that is called education technology. Technology studies involve students and education, which is problem-based learning utilising math, science, and technology principles. According to a few studies, the use of cell phones has a negative impact on academic achievement in youngsters. In particular, a link has been shown between mobile phones and the negative impact they have on children’s education, health, and social lives. It affects not just the children’s academics but also their social lives.
Childhood is regarded as the most important era for children’s physical, mental, psychological, and emotional development. Piaget separated the childhood period into three stages: early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. This is referred to as the transitory phase of a child’s physical, emotional, and psychological development. Mobile phones may be dangerous and problematic, which may be accompanied by a weakened sense of volitional control and motivate tenacious cell phone movement, causing emotional well-being expressions such as restlessness, sleep disruption, and mental tension and worry. Several studies have focused on smartphone addiction, dangerous use, mental health issues, and excessive use of the internet and other apps.
Mobile phone use has altered daily planning, propensities, social practices, emancipatory potentials, home affairs, and social interactions. The constant read-through or maybe utilisation of mobile phone applications twenty-four hours a day has been linked to rest disturbing effects, push, unease, disengagement and crumbling in prosperity, decreased scholastic achievement, and decreased physical activity. The usage of digital technology has risen dramatically during the previous few decades. Radiofrequency (RF) radiation is emitted by mobile and cordless phones when in operation. No preceding generation has been exposed to this type of radiation throughout their childhood and adolescent years. The brain is the primary target organ for radiofrequency radiation from portable wireless phones.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organisation evaluated the scientific data on the risk of brain tumours. The scientific panel concluded that RF radiation from equipment emitting non-ionizing RF radiation in the frequency range of 30 kHz–300 GHz is a Group 2B, or “possible” human carcinogen. Regarding the health effects of digital (wireless) technology, it is critical to address neurological illnesses, physiological addictions, cognition, sleep, and behavioural issues in addition to cancer. Well-being must be carefully assessed as a result of changes in behaviour in children and adolescents caused by their interactions with current digital technology. This particular area is the result of a collaborative effort by professionals from many disciplines. It is a good combination to include publications from both the child development and bioelectromagnetics communities since this provides an overview of the substantial scientific and public health expertise on the subject.
In terms of the health consequences of digital (wireless) technology, it is critical to report on cancer and neurological disorders, as well as physiological addiction, cognition, sleep, and behavioural issues. The usage of digital technology has risen dramatically during the previous few decades. Mobile phones generate radiofrequency (RF) radiation when in use, and no preceding generation was exposed to this type of radiation throughout their infancy and adolescent years. The magnitude and severity of long-term health concerns in total are not yet evident since brain tumours, other malignancies, and neurological illnesses (neurodegenerative diseases) may take decades to show. Cancer risks for glioma and auditory neuroma from mobile phone usage are now epidemiologically obvious, indicating that this appears to be a very powerful carcinogen to causes such rapid increases in cancer risk. When using a cell phone, the brain is the primary target organ for RF radiation, raising concerns about an increased risk of brain tumours.
In May 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) conducted an evaluation of existing knowledge. The expert panel concluded that RF radiation in the frequency range of 30 kHz to 300 GHz is a Group 2B probable human carcinogen. The IARC judgement on mobile phones was mostly based on case-control human investigations conducted by the Hardell group in Sweden and the IARC Interphone research. These studies offered supportive evidence of an increased risk of brain tumours, including gliomas and acoustic euromas. Additional studies have reinforced the elevated risk. Disrupted sleep among teens appears to be a rising concern, with multiple studies indicating detrimental consequences from cell phone use. Certainly, more research should be conducted to investigate the potential detrimental health impacts of RF radiation. One example is the b-trace protein (lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase), which is an enzyme involved in the production of prostaglandin D2, an endogenous neurohormone that promotes sleep. The cumulative usage of wireless phones was related to reduced quantities of b-trace protein in patients aged 18–30 years, indicating a mechanism for mobile phones’ influence on sleep. The findings of this study suggest that additional research should be focused on mechanistic investigations.
Epigenetics, as a novel mechanism, can account for fast genetic alterations (de novo mutations), which may be connected to the epidemic of neurodevelopmental issues in children, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism. Given the very rapid adoption of this technology by children of all ages around the world and the emerging health risks posed by chronic exposure to wireless devices, it is imperative that precautionary warnings be widely circulated now to parents and schools by health professionals with expertise in this subject.
In summary, excessive cell phone use has become a pervasive social problem. This technology has a significant influence on children and teenagers. Irritation, reduced focus, impulsive behaviour, decreased sleep, gastrointestinal problems, and poor academic performance are common physical and mental health difficulties experienced by this demographic. In this case, parents must watch their children and execute appropriate prevention techniques.
The writer is a teacher

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Muhsin Ameen Malik