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We are surrounded by gadgets everywhere. But have you ever wondered, how can they affect our lives? Well they obviously make it easier in a lot of ways but overuse of these facilitating devices can harm us in a lot more ways than we think. Since we use lots of these modern helpers our dream's gadget, are we thought to maintain between our family's bonding and our gadget? Yes, we must take it seriously. I was thinking what really happened  nowadays while the gadgets are being a priority to us.

I am not saying that gadgets is the barrier of our life today, but we have to keep in mind that, gadgets is not everything and family is a matter. I was emphasized to us by maintaining between our family bonding and gadgets, we will keep a good well-being. My point is, i was a husband of my wife and 8 hours working everyday. When i get home, what is the first thing i will do. I supposed to grab my family attention first by entertaining them instead of turning on my gadget and checking some of  the media social account for hours.

What about our children feelings. We sent them to baby sitter place for 8 hours, When we at home, they feel like we do not exist at all. We still keep busy checking our media social account via our gadgets. What will happen to them? While scrolling our Facebook's account, we just let them play itself. Where is the bonding time between them. So, rather than checking Facebook or other social medias, we better entertain them first. Spent your time wisely. We can spent our time to surf internet at working station.

Other than that, why we still keep busy looking our smartphone while having a dinner or lunch with our family. I prefer to put my gadget aside and focus to eat. Keep enjoy talking with our family. Talking about our children, we must keep an eye on them. If we bought a gadget to them, please make sure their gadgets are clean from forbidden content or images.

Eventually, The needs of gadget is undeniable important in our life today, but we as a leader of family must really concern to maintain our family bonding either spend more time to gadget or family.

The Garner family from Cambridgeshire agreed to turn off laptops, tablets, mobile phones and the TV for a week - here's how they got on

They use mobiles and tablets for entertainment, communication and information - playing games, browsing social media and using them to help with homework.

They volunteered to turn off everything for six days and go back to basics. However there were some rules. The children could use their mobile phones for emergencies, and both parents were able to access emails during the day while at work.

The main focus of the exercise was to see how the family were affected in their leisure time, and how they'd function without being able to chat to friends online in the evenings and zone out to white noise.

1 day

Kate and Beatrice passed the time by making a big show of colouring and fashion designing. David, meanwhile, sat on the sofa looking like a lost soul and itching to get his hands on his iPad.

2 day

With a sense of all that they would miss out on, the family made a decision - to leave the house and go out for the day.

They headed to Hunstanton, on the north Norfolk coast. A visit to the Sea Life Centre and the seaside would surely blow away any symptoms of the digital drought.

Day 3

Back home, and after a filling roast dinner, everyone was content to spend some time on their own, reading.

Day 4

Breakfast was spent talking about how the family will spend their non-tech night. Kate elected to bake cakes and telephones (instead of sending a text message!) Grandma for help. Grandma was delighted, naturally.

Challenge over - and conclusions

It's been a difficult few days for the family, who have all had to make significant changes to their lifestyle and habits.

Surprisingly, perhaps, it wasn't the girls who found life toughest.

"I found it hardest," confessed Elizabeth. "Putting the phone away is hard, and stepping away from social media is hard, too. But it's really beneficial to get balance back in your life."

"I missed most talking to my best friend," said Kate. "Even though we go to school together and also swim in the same squad, we message each other all the time and I felt a bit out of the loop of knowing what was going on.

"We share jokes, talk about training, school and homework a lot and I missed all of that. But I really enjoyed having undivided time with my Mum and Dad, and all of us eating together."

Beatrice found it easiest. "I loved it and would happily live this like forever!" she said. "I'd like more days out. And I felt calmer without the TV on all the time."

As for David, although he found the experiment 'okay', he confessed that: "I was overjoyed to be reunited with my iPad."

Overall, it was a valuable experience for the whole family - and Elizabeth has pledged to make some permanent changes.

nspired not only by her six days of digital freedom but also the likes of Ruby Wax and Sara Cox, both of whom have limited the use of tech in the family home, she is looking for an improved life balance.

"We're already planning how to achieve a greater degree of balance," she said.

"Our new rules include no TV in the morning; no iPad/mobile/social media in the morning; no TV/iPad use until after dinner and we're going to switch the internet off after 8pm each night. We're also not going to have more than one hour of social media in the evening."

The overall conclusion is that balance is the key. Technology offers us all huge benefits and enhances our enjoyment of life in ways that would have seemed impossible 20 years ago; our children have never known a world without Wi-Fi.

Provided we don't let it completely take over our lives, and don't neglect quality time together, tech can always be a positive.