Eliana Dockterman The Digital Parent Trap Analysis

In the article “The Digital Parent Trap” by Eliana Dockterman discusses the benefits of kids using technology in their early stage of life. Dockterman persuade parents to embrace young kids using technology with logos, ethos, and some meaningful sentences. Dockterman’s use logos the most thought her whole article to persuade her opponents with concrete data to support her clam and get them from reliable sources. The writer uses statistical data to support the advantages of children using tech. Dockterman finds a study done by SRI, a nonprofit research firm, conducted a test and show that kids that played a game called Samorost, a video game that about solve puzzles, did 12% better on logic test then one how didn’t play that game. It sounds …show more content…
The writer creates a phase to try to related how each parent feel about some about their kids. Dockterman state that who’s right about protecting their kids for technology the dad embraces it or the mother try to protect their child for tech(Dockterman). The writer is try to looking to the shoe of the mother and father then tell to the reader on why mother and father react differently because the dad will encourage their kids to not be scared will the mother always worried about the child that why she is fear about internet device will hurt their kids. Dockterman ask parents to at least to think over and what they can gain by learning in the internet. Dockterman states that parents should keep an open mind about what their kids can gain from technology(Dockterman). The writer pleads to parents to least take look it and want it can do for their child like learn from a professor in university or learn how laws are made in congress and countless more things that internet can do for kids. Dockterman use this sentence to related and try to convince parents to allow their kids to use world web for their