Smart devices ... "The Beautiful World" for the children of Gaza

Parents of many things appear in the Gaza Strip surrender to the use of their children smart devices for fun or play or watching cartoon programs and series, although they realize the risk of using children continuously, but their difficult living conditions and limited capabilities compel them to accept this matter.The truth is that the Gazans live in crowded buildings and overcrowded camps that include homes attached to an area.

Dina Al -Fayoumi (39 years) lives in the Al -Nasr neighborhood in the center of Gaza City, and her three children share the use of an intelligent plate device daily, provided that they accomplish their school duties..She talks to "Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed" about the occurrence of quarrels between her children to get the smart plate longer periods.And she confirms that she tried times to prevent them from using it permanently, but they refused to obey her, which reflected negatively on her, and her organization had to use the smart plate, and entered it to resolve the differences between them.

Al -Fayoumi says: "Children in Gaza are looking for a world similar to that they want through YouTube programs, movies and animated fees, especially since they do not see stadiums and parks on the ground..It is noteworthy that they are now believed that the beautiful world they follow through the smart board is unrealistic, and it is in heaven only.As a mother, I do not have many likes except the option of trying to monitor the content they see, and not withholding it from them, even though I know that he is harmful to them..

Also, Ismail Al -Masry, 43, confirms in his interview with Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed that he cannot control his children, especially when the electrical current is cut off that makes them unable to follow their lessons or watch TV, so they allow them to use smart devices as the best way to spend time in light of the lack ofThe presence of parks in his place of residence in Al -Shati camp, west of Gaza.

Al -Masry shows his concern about the future of his three children who live with them in a house in the center of the camp, and says: "My children play on the beach during the summer, but they are between the walls of the house and the camp alley and its narrow streets in the winter, so I bought them last year a laptop and a smart booster in the installment system".He adds: "I argue with my wife to support or refuse to use our children for smart devices.And when I was concerned about the imitation of my children's movements by young men, they saw them on the Tech Tok application, I deleted it, but I know that there is no alternative to meet the passion of my children and many others of their generation in an environment that is the worst for their proper growth..

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For his part, Al -file, 35 years old, tells the "new Arab" that he set up a small tent for his children on the surface to play in it, and try to forget the use of smart devices, including the cell phone of their mother, who watch "YouTube" through it, but he failed to do so because of the cold of winter and the rain aboveThe tent.He indicates that he is trying to explore the content that suits his children, and sometimes shares viewing in order to follow their behavior and control it..

While the specialist in education, Ghada Safwan, receives in sessions that organize it to support the methods of parents in education, complaints about their inability to control their children's use of smart devices, it reveals that she succeeded in developing a plan to address children's behavior and addiction to smart devices, but their implementation requires costs that many families are unable toGaza for providing them to meet the needs of their children, and support their orientation to clubs and playgrounds, although they are few in Gaza.

Safwan tells Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed that “Children’s coexistence in Gaza is the details and scenes of the Israeli aggression, perhaps during the childhood stage, their aggressive behavior increases, which may raise their uses of smart devices, to the rebellion of parents' orders, or emptying energies by treating others violently and rejecting, And destroying things ".

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But Safwan does not deny the positive role that some scientific applications and cartoon applications play in developing children's skills and their information, "provided that they avoid following them for long hours, which hinders the process of developing their ability to focus, pay attention, communication and a sense of others, as well as building new vocabulary, knowing that they need motor gamesSocial and sports activities develop social media and growth skills, but these activities have no infrastructure in Gaza..