Growing up, playing outside was the best part of the day. Everyone I knew would meet at a friend’s house or the park. We couldn’t wait to play freeze tag or red rover. Those were the days. As I got older, new items were introduced to society. That’s when parks started to become empty, bike riding became rare, and begging our parents to go outside stopped. Technology finally caught up with the world. In this essay, you will read about how we went from healthier and tame children, to temper tantrum having obese children. Makes people ask, “Is technology a friend or a foe?” In July 1989, the first Gameboy was introduced in America. Four months later the Atari was released, but even though it had better graphics and sound, color screen, and more
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As you look at the picture, the first thing that tends to catch your eyes are the words “BUT YOU TOLD ME TO GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!” The font size and type shows the audience how serious the message is. Americans need to be more active in their children’s physical welfare. Less physical activity will lead to a higher chance of sickness and disease. There are four types of barriers that also take a roll in children’s active/inactive life styles, which include intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and environmental (Beck). An intrapersonal barrier consists of using technology as an excuse not to be physically active out of fear that you will be made fun of due to your size. Interpersonal barriers are when you befriend people that prefer to stay inside on a game console or computer instead of going outside. If you have no other friends or your trying to fit in, you tend to go with the flow and do what your friends do. Institutional barriers consist of stuff that cause you to have no free time. For a student that is full time, has research project, involved in clubs, or anything that takes up their day, can’t fit in activity as well. In this case, they need to learn and develop better time management. Lastly we have environmental barriers. These barriers include, but aren’t limited to, no transportation, and bad weather (Beck). All of these barriers can be overcome with a bit of …show more content…
With technology, there is the benefit of learning. There are such programs for every grade level, ABCmouse.com for PreK-5th, V-Math for elementary/middle school, highschoolace.com for high school, or Atomic learning and Aleks for college. Technology is the future, but if we don’t take care of the elements to our future (our children) then the technology is completely useless. The first step is by learning, and the first teacher are the parents. Make the best of our future by paving the right path, and eliminating the
As you look at the picture, the first thing that tends to catch your eyes are the words “BUT YOU TOLD ME TO GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!” The font size and type shows the audience how serious the message is. Americans need to be more active in their children’s physical welfare. Less physical activity will lead to a higher chance of sickness and disease. There are four types of barriers that also take a roll in children’s active/inactive life styles, which include intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and environmental (Beck). An intrapersonal barrier consists of using technology as an excuse not to be physically active out of fear that you will be made fun of due to your size. Interpersonal barriers are when you befriend people that prefer to stay inside on a game console or computer instead of going outside. If you have no other friends or your trying to fit in, you tend to go with the flow and do what your friends do. Institutional barriers consist of stuff that cause you to have no free time. For a student that is full time, has research project, involved in clubs, or anything that takes up their day, can’t fit in activity as well. In this case, they need to learn and develop better time management. Lastly we have environmental barriers. These barriers include, but aren’t limited to, no transportation, and bad weather (Beck). All of these barriers can be overcome with a bit of …show more content…
With technology, there is the benefit of learning. There are such programs for every grade level, ABCmouse.com for PreK-5th, V-Math for elementary/middle school, highschoolace.com for high school, or Atomic learning and Aleks for college. Technology is the future, but if we don’t take care of the elements to our future (our children) then the technology is completely useless. The first step is by learning, and the first teacher are the parents. Make the best of our future by paving the right path, and eliminating the