Parents always tend to enjoy the seemingly endless energy displayed by their Kids. They cannot stop brooding over the charming mischief that kids indulge in when they are not at school or when they are not playing outside. However, there’s a fine line between charming mischief and downright notoriety. Kids always aren’t quite mindful of the discomfort they cause when they are indoors and cannot help but bring down the roof with their pranks and play. Hence, parents have always resorted to means where they get their kids engaged or distracted in some activity that keeps them off breaking crockery or pulling each other’s hair. However, parents tend to not adopt the healthiest of distractions for children. Their go-to solution is usually the ever dependent Television and the humble smartphone with its mighty assortment of games and apps.
But this is in itself is a very unhealthy habit. With the explosion in content availability across mainstream media, the content that is displayed on these “Media” boxes- or let’s just use the old term “Idiot Box”- is not exactly moderated or appropriated for children. The cartoons of the modern age are far more different from those of the 80s and 90s which were aimed at imparting interesting trivia and healthy knowledge to children. Today’s cartoons with their gory animations and graphicised violence isn’t exactly a smooth influence on the senses. Studies show that Kids who spend inordinate amount of time accessing such content via smartphones or watching them on the TV tend to display aggressive tendencies and are more prone to engaging in unhealthy interactions such as fistfights and aggressive pranks. 
Does this mean parents are meant to keep them off media sources completely and just get them engaged in scholastic activity? Not exactly. One’s mind would immediately race to the saying “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. Studies have revealed that kids have the urge to indulge themselves in such activities owing to excessive energies they have as a part of their growth and metabolism and they proactively find activities where they can expend their energies and time in.
However, this necessarily does not mean that kids be let in spending time on such unproductive activity. Parents as such should always encourage children to take up activity that would help in both their physical building as well as their mental upbringing. What better way to get this done than via indulging in activity that helps them both learn interesting concepts as well as provide them with the gratification of having engaged in constructive activities?
We at Kidobotikz strive to put the unspent energies of Kids to better use. This we believe is helpful for the child in his upbringing as he spends his fun time in activities that are not only constructive but are also creative and informative. Our Kidobotikz kits have always enjoyed the flair for being interactive and informative at the same time. Time and again, this fact has been reaffirmed to us by happy parents who tell us that their ward now has a new distraction that they are happy to see him distracted with.
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