According to this website https://habyts.com/kids-and-screen-time-five-facts/, children will spend twice as long in front of of screens then they would outside. 3 in 4 children spends less then an hour of playtime outdoors. Technology has such a huge impact on so many people, including children.
We are teaching our children to be dependent on technology, most young children nowadays are carrying around iPhones and iPads. Do you know how embarrassing it is to be shown up by a child with your own phone?
Children are wicked smart and can figure out a cellphone faster then I can wake up in the morning.
Carmi Levy is a technology analyst and journalist who believes that the use of technology for children is good and that they need the digital skills to function in today’s digital economy.
“If you want the kid to grow up as a digitally literate individual, as a parent, or a guardian or a caregiver, you’re going to have to be involved in that process, whatever the age is, you’re going to have to use the technology together, you’re gonna have to set appropriate limitations on on how it’s used on what is the right kind of usage versus the wrong kind of usage and, and what the consequences are for crossing those lines. That applies at a younger age as well as it does at an older age. Otherwise, kids will not grow up with the right set of digital tools or digital skills to function in today’s digital economy.”
Carmi believes that the key word whenever you’re raising a child is balance.
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“The key word whenever you’re raising any child is balance. And I think that applies to technology as it does anything else. And so, you know, if you want to raise a responsible adult, who knows how to use technology appropriately, uses it for good, uses it to drive their career, build better families, relationships, connect with friends, all those good things, then you have to instill that in an early at an early age. If you failed to do that, if you fail to set the tone for your child, if you fail to educate them in technology, just as you do with all the other things reading, writing, arithmetic, and all the other critical life skills that people need to succeed as adults.”
Carmi believes that children need to have those digital skills to be ready for what the future will hold for them.
“They have to be familiar with technology, they have to have those digital skills but they also have to have life skills that in many cases have nothing to do with technology. And so, as a parent, you have to ask yourself the question, are you covering the entire range are you at shirring that your child knows when it’s okay to plug in, and when they need to unplug as well, that will serve them very well. 30 years from now, when chances are they’re probably raising kids’ apparel.”
Technology is used everyday. We need to teach our children the ways of technology so that in
30 years down the line they are ready for what comes at them. Children need to be familiar with technology, they have to have those digital skills but they also have to have life skills.
