Kids With Cell Phones: How Young Is Too Young?

According to a 2010 Kaiser Foundation study, which involved elementary children, concluded that on average 75 percent of parents allowed their children to have bedroom TV’s, North American households keep their TV’s on for 50 percent of the day, and use 7.5 hours of technology entertainment per day (Rowan). Technology is becoming a problem throughout the United States, especially in elementary aged kids. Parents are introducing technology as early as infants so that they understand certain information at an early age. When parents introduce technology at such an early age they are giving their children the advantage to be addicted to the wonders of it. Young children are at a high risk of brain damage with the advancement of technology. The more adults introduce technology to younger children the higher the chances of problems it causes. Technology has a negative effect on younger children and should have limitations on the age in which it is being introduced.

Increasingly, there is a large dependence on technology today as opposed to ten or twenty years ago. Technology has changed a lot of how life is lived today. It affects shopping, job seeking employment opportunities, entertainment and academics. There is no doubt that technology has set its foundation and is here to stay. One area in which the effects of technology can be clearly noted is in the lifestyle of children. The addiction to technology by children today has increased over the years. This is clearly seen in the developmental progress of children today. This dependence has greatly influenced how children

Kids should not have their own devices because it can lead to health problems, and for the kids it is a big distraction. “Studies show that screen time is tied to health problems. Using computers or phones can lead to being overweight. It also can make it harder for kids to pay attention for long periods of time.”

Technology has so quickly taken over our lives without questioning the affects, especially in Early Years as children begin to learn about the social world, away from the home environment. As the modern world develops an ever increasing reliance on technology, the affects on children and their learning are unknown. Technology has made our lives easier and enabled us to do things generations before us would have never even dreamt of, despite this, questions as to whether technology could have adverse affects on young children's learning need to be asked. Many people would suggest that allowing children to spend

Children's learning and habits are very critical to their development and learning skills. Especially at young ages like birth to 6 years old, new pathways in their brain are being produced every day and their frontal lobes are active and starting to develop, working memory, attachments, emotions, and perception. And the prefrontal cortex is the last to develop, which explains why children and teenagers have a hard time with decision making and controlling their impulses. So using technology while children's brains are in these stages can be beneficial if used the right way, but it also can be dangerous to introduce them to technology though because of all the negative effects it has. For

My research project was inspired by my love of children and the many times I have observed children using technology. From this experience I noticed many young children are extremely familiar with technology and the use of technology can have both positive and negative effects on them. As I have researched into this topic, I have learnt there are many beneficial and harmful implications of technological use for children. A finding I have come across on multiple occasions is children should not be using or be in contact with any technology whilst they are under the age of 2. A positive implication includes using technology for educational reasons as opposed to entertainment purposes. Using technology for entertainment or for long periods of time can negatively affect the child psychologically. A key point from my research has lead me to understand technology can have a huge impact on a child’s mental, physical and emotional health. (154 words)

Included below is a summary about the article titled “How Young is Too Young for Technology,” by Josie Gurney-Read, and published by Telegraph. This article talks about the positive and negative impacts when exposing young children to technology. First, Read opens up the article explaining that by the time children start school, 70% are already confident in using a laptop, tablet or smart phone. Read also notes, that 17% of children under the age of three have their own device. The article then discusses that the American Academy of Pediatrics says that children under the age of two should be discouraged from using technology and that preschool kids shouldn’t be using devices for more than two hours per day (Read). Professor Manfred Spitzer

Today everyone is using technology no matter how old they are. Ever since technology came out, it has been stapled to our lives forever. Today, a toddler of 12 months of age is spending hours using technology. There are lots of controversies whether technology is good or bad for our children. Many say technology can affect our children social skills, while others state that technology benefits our children because technology can be a resourceful way of helping children learn a variety of skills. It is hard to decide whether is good or bad to exposed our children to technology. What many people should realize, is that our children can use technology but to a certain extent.

Instead of completely keeping children from technology, parents should allow them to use it in the right way. Interactive games and applications can be a beneficial learning tool for children. Dan D. Young, the founder of VINCI and the creator of VINCI Blended Learning, explains how technology is beneficial for children in his article, “Technology can Stimulate the Infant Brain”, by pointing out that “when properly selected, these games get infants to slow down and think, thus making decisions and exercising the gears in their brains.” Technology will improve the way children think and process things if parents find the right applications instead of just letting the children play fun games that will not teach the child anything. Parents with

With new technology and advances in education it is no wonder the use of computers, iPads, and other devices are trickling into the daily life of our younger generations. Perhaps these advances could be doing more harm than providing the enriching education parents and schools think they are. There are now elementary schools where every child has their own iPad and middle schools with Chrome Books the students can take home. Even paper textbooks are being replaced with electronic versions. The use of technology moving forward with education needs to be balanced with critical factors involving a child’s development. Children must be separated from constant attachment to screens to properly learn and develop necessary social skills to become adults who are able to interact and communicate.

In this era, many will say its not good for young adults to not have access to electronical devices, for their social stability, or to understand how the world works, this may be true but children should definitely be limited. The gudelines from the American Academy of pediatrics (AAP) stating that children older than 2 years should be limited to 1-2 hours of "screen time" and that is what parents should be instiling upon their kids.

I disagree with this article because kids at age 6 – to 8 shouldn’t be on their iPod and tablets all day. They should be outside playing with family and friends making memories. When kids at this age have accuses to “Small Screen devices”, they wouldn’t want to do anything else, but be glued to their iPods and tablets. Once you give them an iPod, they would never get rid of it. I feel like letting young kids have their own electronic device it would affect them being a kid, I don’t think that should be taken away from them. Moreover, I don’t think children shouldn’t have accuses to technology, because the violent that are on the media can cause aggression for children.

Technology is doing more harm to our population than good, especially where children and teens are concerned. In the article “It’s ‘digital heroin’: How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies”, it says that 8 to 10 year olds spend on average 8 hours a day with digital media, while teenagers spend around 11 hours a day using technology. Also in this article it is said that 1 in 3 kids are using tablets or smartphones before they can talk. This much exposure to screens can be the start of an addiction for many kids and also cause behavioral

The larger problems of ineffectively using technology are the length of time the children are allowed to use it and the age of the children using it. In the United States, 10% of children under the age of two use tablets which only quadrupled by 2013 (Bernstein, 2016). It is not solely Americans, as 58% of French children under two also use tablets. The American Academics of Pediatrics (APP) states that there should be no screen time for children under two (Bernstein, 2016), because they require balance of social interaction and exploration of their environment beforehand. Introduce technology to toddlers around ages four or five with the intent of increasing creativity, academic

Whether we are aware of it or not, technology has become a normal part of our lives nowadays. No matter where we go, technology will be present, from mobile devices to more complicated creations, and all generations are exposed to them, specially the younger ones. This young generation spends a great deal of time in front the screens of these technologic devices. Which is why parents should limit the amount of time children under 12 use technology since it does not let them develop certain abilities, it limits them from having real-life interactions, and it might cause children health problems too (Summers).