UNAIR NEWS – The current pandemic has limited children’s exploration of space. Moreover, the school system is carried out from home. It increases the use of gadgets in children. Although some children do school online with laptops, one of the psychologists from Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR), Dr. Dewi Retno Suminar, M.Si., Psychologist, said that this activity still allows children to surf in cyberspace, which in turn can arouse greater curiosity about everything.

“When children have a thirst for news, movies, and other internet facilities via gadgets and self-control cannot stop, it can cause disturbances characterized by anxiety and sleeplessness,” she explained.