Negative Effect of Smartphone for Elementary Students

Bad studying focus, obesity, and negative attitudes are the most common problems that are caused by playing smartphone games for elementary students. To begin with, elementary students mostly cannot limit their mind and freed from the influence of a new thing around them like smartphone games. Indirectly, they will be addicted by the games and it will caused the decline of studying focus, even they do not want to go to school anymore. Not only causing the decline of studying focus, it may make them become a overweight student and attacked by obesity disease. It can occur since playing games is more interesting than another activity like going for sport. When students playing games and eating snacks continuously, fat will accumulate in their body, and if there are less of movements after, it will lead a severe obesity. Besides both of those impacts, the worst impact of playing smartphone games is students’ negative attitudes. The smartphone games nowadays usually consist of unworthy elements for elementary students’ age range, for instance ribaldry and violence. The elementary students will automatically imitate all of those unworthy elements because they do not know which one is good or not, and it will endanger their future behavior. Overall, the problems of playing smartphone games for elementary students could be avoided if students considered the disreputable effects of it, which are bad studying focus, obesity, and negative attitudes.