The Age Of Technology: Is Technology Ruining Childhood?

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Children are incredibly adapting to change, with the rapid pace that technology is changing the more capable children are at facing challenges, not just with technology, but with life in general. Culture and living standards greatly impacted all the fundamental aspects of all cultures including laws and how they are enforced, language, art, health care, mobility, education and religion. Technology benefits children with close instructions and monitoring the use of technological devices for the appropriate and approved uses, it is in our everyday lives, there is nothing that can be done to change that. This is the age of technology, it should not be thought of as a reason of ruining childhoods because it has always been based on the society …show more content…
They’re playing video games, they’re scouring the Internet and they’re socializing with friends online instead of in person. "Children are not getting the physical activity they need in order to maintain healthy weights, and it is because they are using a lazier form of entertainment and socializing"(Is
Technology Ruining Childhood?)... "Children don’t learn how to wait patiently or work hard to achieve anything, and this can have a negative effect on the future(Is Technology Ruining

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Childhood?)." Rather than spending a Saturday afternoon outside with their friends, kids are staying indoors and playing on their phones, tablets or computers, instead of going to a friend’s house, they simply chat with their friend online. Children are not getting the physical activity they need in order to maintain healthy weights, and it is because they are using a lazier form of entertainment and socializing. "If a child is always hidden behind their computer screen, cell phone or tablet, they will not learn the necessary skills they need in life"(Is Technology Ruining
Childhood?). Instead of allowing this behavior, parents can force their kids to get outside— without their phone—and play some sports. If children keep hiding behind their

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