City Desk :
Five-year-old Zara, daughter of Nazrul Islam who is a resident of old part of the capital, is now using spectacles having -3.5 power as an eye specialist told her parents that the girl must always use the eyeglasses to protect her eyesight. Zara’s mother Jhorna Begum’s voice choked with emotion as she said, “My daughter has been playing games on smart phones since her two and a half years age. A few days ago, she told me that she could not see TV properly. We also saw dark marks under her eye lines.”
Quoting the eye specialist, she said random usage of mobile phone is responsible for her poor eye sight. Too much use of phone is also causing burning and itching in her daughter’s eyes.
A new study carried out by scientists at Charotar University revealed that use of mobile phone increases the possibility of developing cataract among children. Besides, it also affects retina, cornea and other ocular system of a child’s eye.
Abdul Barek, father of 16-year-old Mehidi Hasan, said, “Recently I came to know that my son steals money from his mother’s purse to recharge his mobile phone after being annoyed as I stopped providing him pocket money since he failed in the SSC examinations.”
“It is my fault that I bought a mobile phone for him when he was an eighth-grade student. I thought that it may help him in his study, but that did not happen, instead he failed in his examinations,” said Barek who resides in Fatullah area of Narayanganj district.
“He does not communicate with us rather he prefers to browse in his mobile phone all the time. I do not know what to do,” he lamented. Though there are lots of benefits in using smart phones, but every technological advancement that provides such dramatic benefit also has awful consequences.
In Bangladesh, about 13 crore out of 17 crore people are using mobile phone as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is pledge-bound to establish the country as Digital Bangladesh.
Sayeda Yasmin, a teacher of Little Jewel School, told that sometimes kids bring phones to school and get engaged with their phones even in presence of teachers in the classrooms.
“Kids become less interested in doing homework’s and their exam results suffer due to poor preparation or fatigues that develop due to excessive use of smart phones,” she added.
Umme Kawser, a psychotherapist and teacher of Clinical Psychology department of Dhaka University told that as mobile phones are keeping the brain busy, kids tend to be more annoying. They become more violent and feel irritated to communicate with their parents.
“The worst case is that children stop communicating with the family members all together. Some children are so much obsessed with their smart phones that they always check for messages and become irritated if they are asked to keep their phones away for a while,” she added.
Five-year-old Zara, daughter of Nazrul Islam who is a resident of old part of the capital, is now using spectacles having -3.5 power as an eye specialist told her parents that the girl must always use the eyeglasses to protect her eyesight. Zara’s mother Jhorna Begum’s voice choked with emotion as she said, “My daughter has been playing games on smart phones since her two and a half years age. A few days ago, she told me that she could not see TV properly. We also saw dark marks under her eye lines.”
Quoting the eye specialist, she said random usage of mobile phone is responsible for her poor eye sight. Too much use of phone is also causing burning and itching in her daughter’s eyes.
A new study carried out by scientists at Charotar University revealed that use of mobile phone increases the possibility of developing cataract among children. Besides, it also affects retina, cornea and other ocular system of a child’s eye.
Abdul Barek, father of 16-year-old Mehidi Hasan, said, “Recently I came to know that my son steals money from his mother’s purse to recharge his mobile phone after being annoyed as I stopped providing him pocket money since he failed in the SSC examinations.”
“It is my fault that I bought a mobile phone for him when he was an eighth-grade student. I thought that it may help him in his study, but that did not happen, instead he failed in his examinations,” said Barek who resides in Fatullah area of Narayanganj district.
“He does not communicate with us rather he prefers to browse in his mobile phone all the time. I do not know what to do,” he lamented. Though there are lots of benefits in using smart phones, but every technological advancement that provides such dramatic benefit also has awful consequences.
In Bangladesh, about 13 crore out of 17 crore people are using mobile phone as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is pledge-bound to establish the country as Digital Bangladesh.
Sayeda Yasmin, a teacher of Little Jewel School, told that sometimes kids bring phones to school and get engaged with their phones even in presence of teachers in the classrooms.
“Kids become less interested in doing homework’s and their exam results suffer due to poor preparation or fatigues that develop due to excessive use of smart phones,” she added.
Umme Kawser, a psychotherapist and teacher of Clinical Psychology department of Dhaka University told that as mobile phones are keeping the brain busy, kids tend to be more annoying. They become more violent and feel irritated to communicate with their parents.
“The worst case is that children stop communicating with the family members all together. Some children are so much obsessed with their smart phones that they always check for messages and become irritated if they are asked to keep their phones away for a while,” she added.
