Internet Fancy of Children Has Escalated Parents’ Anxiety

Abstract

During a pandemic, mobility constraints policies, limiting children's physical activity, physical games, and educational activities to the digital space. They prefer to play using the gadget of the play together with a friend-a friend environment neighborhood. Children who spend their time with gadgets will become more angry, rebellious because they feel that they are being disturbed while playing games and are lazy to do their daily routines. This has resulted in the parents becoming anxious with the child they are. This study aimed to determine the level of parental anxiety on the use of gadgets by children in the new normal era. The research method uses descriptive quantitative, draft descriptive quantitative, aiming to obtain the respondent's identity and identify how the relationship between anxiety and use of the internet through a gadget on children in the normal new era. The data obtained from filling the questionnaire through a google form, with participants from research is that of the parents who have children aged 5-12 years in East Java. This study indicates that many children use gadgets excessively and the impact it causes so that many parents show an anxious attitude when their children play with gadgets.