Early Childhood Screen Time and Parental Attitude: A Mindful Approach

Abstract

Considerable number of children begin watching television and using digital devices at a very early age and the number of hours keeps on increasing. Parents have the home environmental control and thus practice the routines. They will have to be informed and trained about the mindful approaches in keeping their children from spending too much time on digital devices. The present research study has its own significance in a way that parents and educators do have a right to trustworthy information including the benefits of play, recommended daily screen time exposure allotments, and the negative and positive outcomes of screen time use on children’s development. This study attempts to reveal the overall parental beliefs and screen time of young children and the influence of personal variables, institution related variables on research variables (Parental Attitude, Child screen time effects, Child physical activities, Child sleep habits). Normative survey method is employed to describe and interpret what exists at present. The sample included seventy (70) children in the age group between 2 to 5 years selected at random from the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. Statistical techniques like Item Analysis – Pilot Study, Descriptive Analysis (Mean and Standard Deviation), Differential Analysis (t-values and F-ratios), Correlation Analysis were adopted to analyse the Pilot and Final study.