Child Technology Research Paper

In modern day, a person can see a random child under the age of thirteen have a phone, tablet or gaming device. Cris Rowan, a Pediatric Therapist, implies “Children use 7.5 hours per day of entertainment technology, and 75% have a device in their bedroom.” With all this technology around young children, one wonders how technology can affect their behavior, development, and learning abilities. By the age of three months to two years old, children are exposed to their first two technologies including television and cell phones. According to Zone’n Fact Sheet, a baby watches 2.5 hours TV each day. At the age of one years old, the baby would already picked its favorite TV shows, which he or she will develop a behavior towards the shows call addiction. Babies would show early signs of addition including wanting their shows on all the time and throwing a temper tantrum or withdraw when the shows are not on. A person can say it’s really hard for a baby to understand TV schedules. Television is not the only technology that babies are addicted to. They are also addicted to cell phones. Parents today will let their baby play with their phones all the time. Some parents even use their phone as a distraction to their babies so they can talk to someone or try keep them quit in public. For parents doing that, it causes bad behavior such as crying for the phone and snatching the phone from the parent. When the baby gets into school age and adolescence, he or she will develop new addictions towards their own phone, tablet, gaming consoles, and portable media players. If technology can make a child have addicting behavior from an early age, then what can technology do to a child’s development? Today’s children development is endanger. Children rely on too much technology than reading a book or going outside. One can say that a tablet or computer is a child’s best friend. Children count on a device to play with them than another child, which can cause children to be antisocial early in life. Children are also immobile and stay inside too much do to playing video games or apps. Being immobile and …show more content…
Children today as the lack of common sense and lack of thinking. The 21st generation has everything they want to know by looking it up on a computer, phone, or portable media device. When a child is looking something up, are they really sinking the information in? The five steps of healthy way of thinking is brainstorming, focus, implement, evaluate, and reflect. Today’s children don’t even do half of these steps to boost their intelligences. To them why would they when a technology device can do it for them. That is why the learn abilities of the 21st generation has decreased. Children are not thinking for themselves. They are letting a device to think for …show more content…
It is unacceptable on how parents let technology take over their children. It’s not the children’s fault of what they have become today. It’s the parents fault because a lot of them are lazy. They don’t want to spend or give the time to their children, so they’ll go out and buy them a phone, tablet, or gaming device to keep them busy or away from them. In my opinion, parenting is a big job and if a parent don’t want to do that job than don’t have