Mental health in childhood means reaching developmental and emotional milestones, and learning healthy social skills and how to cope when there are problems. Mentally healthy children have a positive quality of life and can function well at home, in school, and in their communities.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/childdevelopment/mentalhealth.html

Mental Health Screening on mental, physical or emotions.

https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.childrenshealthfund.org/sites/default/files/dev-and-mental-health-primary-care-screening-tools.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwjW2IzP0pDKAhWUv44KHYz5Aac4ggEQFggjMAM&usg=AFQjCNEO_axc56DS9gmf0oMrbfmJb_D1sg&sig2=sMbiBMRB_2HSba4s6JFREg

Earlier generation children has survival skills- that brings maturity and narrows the gap between physical age and mental age- You may find these children in remote villages belonging to earlier generation-

Now a days children are protected by law - not to work at all- not to to follow parents' advise- that lead to children remain children for longer time since they do not want to incorporate elder advice- Also they are gifted everything by parents without helping them in their business or routine work. Rather keep busy as George said on social computer games etc

Mental health in childhood means reaching developmental and emotional milestones, and learning healthy social skills and how to cope when there are problems. Mentally healthy children have a positive quality of life and can function well at home, in school, and in their communities.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/childdevelopment/mentalhealth.html

A good comparison is done when a man/woman in his/her sixties remembers what he/she was like during childhood & what the children of today look like. In the past, the "productive" mental age was reached relatively fast (e.g. my family used to ask me to go to the market & buy its needs at the age of 7 years old onwards & nobody ever cheated me then !). Now, the children will show physical development at an early age but you cannot count on them to shoulder responsibility towards the family. My old friends & me do the job and we talk about how there is delay in reaching "meaningful" adulthood these days.

The human brain has a strange capacity to adapt and to develop, according to different environments and situations.

We adapt, and it is certainly easier to adapt, in neurological terms, as early and imature as possible.

This might explain the differences in maturity of our present children. They are adapting, as best they can, to an overload of information and technological diversity that didn´t exist previously. 

Our children's brains are quicly adapting to a totally different World environment. We cannot expect them to react in the same manner as they would, if the world had not evolved as it has in such quick dramatic ways...

Good response Maria

Dear, 

When i have been a child I have played football with my friends in garden and now children are focused in technological devices. And this makes a huge gap between physical and mental age. I have read an article there writes for disadvantages of technological devices for children. I don't have this article but if I find i will send it to you.

Best regards,

Fatmir Prekupi 

Thank you so much for all valuable information and suggestions. But adopting new technologies rapidly is good at all? It seems that upcoming generations will more focus on this only. No one will go garden, park, outdoor activity hence physical activity became more challenging for them. 

What if, any government or Expert should suggest some standard for uses for technologies with "specific time ". 

However, you(Experts) need some partial actions or suggestions for maintaining gap  between mental and physical age respect to technological uses.

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Mental age

"Mental age is a concept related to intelligence. It looks at how a specific child, at a specific age—usually today, now—performs intellectually, compared to average intellectual performance for that physical age, measured in years. The physical age of the child is compared to the intellectual performance of the child, based on performance in tests and live assessments by a psychologist. Scores achieved by the child in question are compared to scores in the middle of a bell curve for children of the same age 

However mental age varies according to what kind of intelligence is measured. A child's intellectual age can be average for his physical age but the same child's emotional intelligence can be immature for his physical age. In this psychologists often remark girls are more emotionally mature than boys in the tween years. Also a six-year-old child intellectually gifted in Piaget terms, can remain a three-year-old child in terms of Emotional Intelligence. Mental age was once considered a controversial concept."......

please, see the original article(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_age) and the other related references, if you have spare time to see...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_age

http://healingtoolbox.org/articles/three-selves/620-social-age-developmental-age-mental-age

http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/education/the-development-of-strength-and-skill-in-childrens-with-diagram/23583/

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

Attached is a very interesting chart, entitled "Child Development charts with age:", it consists of the following parts:

A. Mental, Emotional, Social Development Of Children By Age: Chart

B. Age/ Behavior chart in church services:

Please, see the attached Char.

http://www.bible.ca/f-child-age-development-chart.htm

The problem is if we have reliable data to compare equivalent cases, otherwise we cannot infer.

Thank you Hazim, Demetris, Maria, Subhash  for your valuable information and time for enlight this topic.

Regards 

Anil