Digital Dilemma – How to raise the techy generation / Code Red: Are our children’s lives taken over by gadgets / Technology Takeover – When technology becomes too much to handle
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Strap: Do you think it is good to have technology at your child’s fingertips. Latest research says otherwise. We give you some insights to help your family use technology responsibly.
Have you felt over the moon when your two-year-old opened your phone on her own and clicked on the YouTube icon? Are you blown away by your teen’s knowledge of Xbox or PlayStation? Yes? We are all mesmerised by the magic of our children's growth, no doubt, but when it comes to technology, less is always more. We are not the only ones saying this – it is the word around
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With our TVs, mobile phones, tablets, video games and computers, the gadgets are galore to keep us distracted. While technology and gadgets are definitely beneficial, there are also many downsides of overusing them. It is not only the obvious impacts like sedentary lifestyle and poor eyesight that you need to worry about – the problems are rooted deep, affecting every aspect of your child's growth from brain development to language to social skills. Here is a detailed list of age-wise impacts of gadgets on your child and what you can do about …show more content…
Restrict access to purchasing additional apps or games.
Hit the panic button
If your teen is anxious and depressed has poor eating habits has problems at school interacts more with virtual friends is aggressive and lacks empathy is irritable without gadgets is a victim of cyberbullying indulges in untoward behaviour like sexting
How to help
Strictly limit your teen’s time on Social Media. Make your child accountable with consequences if the rule is broken.
Talk about the dangers of the Internet.
Encourage your child to use the family computer for all her browsing needs.
Create a welcoming atmosphere at home where your teen will feel the need to connect with you.
Practice responsible media usage yourself.
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Don’t forget the dangers from radiation
Mobile phones emit signals in the form of electromagnetic radiation which can cause changes in the brain and DNA. Young children are especially vulnerable to this. According to a study by the University of Utah, children’s thin skulls and soft bones absorb twice as much radiation as adults. The study further explains that radiation can penetrate children’s brain better because of the high concentration of fluids in the brain
Overuse of cell phones is undoubtedly beginning to put people at risk. Besides cell phones, television has negative effects as well. Advertisements on television harm British children from the exposure to "about 10,000 adverts every year on television, in addition to hundreds of 'pop-ups' on the internet. " Thus, children pressure themselves to be "cool".
Technology intoxicates the brains of young children and young adults, is what most parents might say when asked about the effect that technology has on the younger generations. In the article, “The Digital Parent Trap” by Eliana Dockterman, she appeals to logos, appeals to ethos, and compares the effects of technology to persuade her audience that early exposure to technology actually can be beneficial. First, Dockterman appeals to logos throughout the passage when arguing her point. In her passage, Dockterman continuously uses statistics as evidence to support her argument.
What we need to do is lessen the use of technology and read a book. We should lessen the use of technology to become less dependent on it as a society because it hinders parenting and socializing.
Jim Benson, who is an author of the best selling “Dear Dumb Diaries” children’s series, establishes an ironic twist on technology dependence. His article, “12 Hilariously True Cartoons That Skewer Our Addiction To Tech” focused on what technology dependency looks like. Benson has made many several cartoons about other issues, but he decided to put his work around technology dependency. One of the cartoons that speak a lot is a child who asks permission to use his computer for a while. But after using the computer, he becomes an adult and cannot take back his childhood back.
Kids today are too attached to their phones, but adults lead the examples. Children watch their parents to see how to act around others. When we are too attached to our technology then our kids learn that it is all they need and they lose the connections they make out in the world. Many experts say that technology is replacing parenting and children aren’t feeling the way they should towards their parents. We can see the social critiques in books such as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and the short story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury have big social critiques that we can see in our society today.
The bad ways of using electronics are, if you go on a dating app you could get catfished, that 's when you see many pictures of the person you want to date but you go to their house and that 's not what they look like at all. If you are playing pokemon go you can get hurt or badly injured by not looking where you are going. If you text your parents that you are in danger the sound of you getting a text back from them asking what the house looked like you might alert the stranger and you shouldn 't even contact your parents first contact the police if that was really happening to you. Technology it can also bring you bad websites that you shouldn 't be on.
Around 72% of parents say that they feel as if they have a good handle on technology and they are a good role model for their child when it comes to using it (Stress in America, 2017). Six in ten of those parent admitted that they were also “glued” to their phones as well, or constantly checking emails (Stress in America, 2017). Most parents, ninety four percent state that they take at least one action to help their children from being addicted to technology (Stress in America, 2017). They say they feel as if they are failing to succeed (Stress in America,
This exemplifies how technology has replaced routine tasks and reduced our sense of purpose in life. Bradbury explains that by evolving technology the parents have no connection with their children “because they ‘never lifted a hand’ in contributing to their development, the children are ‘insufferable’” (Caldwell). The parents allowed technology to parent their children making them incapable of knowing how to parent them outside of basic commands. Ray Bradbury expresses that technology is like “empty gloves into which a hand … can be inserted” (Butler).
Many of us tend to overlook the technology we use and how tremendously it has developed throughout the years. Most people use electronic devices like laptops, tablets, and smart phones daily, just like how they would use a microwave or vacuum. However, we do not look into details of the programs and knowledge that went into creating these devices. Those who develop the skills and knowledge of technology become digitally literate. I have collected a sample of authors who each have a stand on the issue of whether digital literacy is important for those who use electronics.
Author, Eliana Dockterman in her article, “The Digital Parent Trap,” exposes the potential benefits of technology use among young people. Dockterman’s purpose is to persuade her audience that there are benefits to early exposure to technology. Dockterman adopts a professional tone in order to get her audience into believing that technology does have its benefits and should be used more. Dockterman uses evidence, reasoning, word choice and tone that adds power to her ideas to build an argument to persuade her audience throughout her article.
Children are being less productive and are putting in too much time watching television and playing video games as they soon are not going to know what it is like to play outside on a sunny day is like as they are so tied up to their phone. Children are becoming dependent on technology and have not had a chance to learn real life skills outside of technology as many children are not able to have a face-to-face conversations like are parents use to have to do. In the United States it has become a health concern and caused health programs to start up in
This generation is growing up around new technology and parents who do not have the experience or the skills necessary to deal with those pressures. Raising a child in a new era of discovery is hard and the millennials are being taught without technology; by adding it to the equation without proper training it is going to lead to the misuse of technology. Instead to trying to combat technology entirely, it is rational to incorporate into parenting, so that a millennial can grow up with technology as an option, not an
The current study is the effects of exposure to technology on young children. As we become increasingly more reliant and absorbed in technology, it is no surprise that today’s children have become avid users as well (Hatch, 2011). Children at the age of three or four already have tablets, smart phones, and others; they could easily attain technologies and would even demand for one. As it makes easier for us, technology has both positive and negative impacts especially on young children. It comes with great opportunities but these opportunities likewise come with great risk
Cell Phones: The average teenager who gets on their phone, just for a second, each hour has the same mind as a 30 year old cocaine addict. Teens have their minds tricked into thinking they can’t live without their cell phones and social media. Teens need to be able to talk to and connect with others and learn face-to-face communication skills. Nowadays teens can get harmed very easily, and teens do not really know who is on the other side of the screen. Studies have shown that phones can ruin lives with the blink of an eye.
Cell phones can lead many dangerous health problems to teenagers. By giving teens cell phone, they may probably spend most of their time on text and play video games Also, by contacting with friends by calling them for hours, It can make teens suffer from hearing loss because phones damage the inner ear. Moreover, by using a cell phone, a teenager will spend most of his time sitting on the chair without moving. In other words, let them only sit and talk. By this way, teenagers will have the obesity problem.