What Are The Negative Effects Of Technology On Children

Whenever you go out to eat at a restaurant, you might see various families playing on iPhones, and iPads and not communicating with each other. Everywhere you look, numerous kids have cellphones, have access to the internet, and have a television in the household; if they are lucky enough, children might even have a television in their bedroom. Technology is booming and has increasingly become a problem, especially in children and adolescents. When it comes to technology, more children are not only being exposed to technology at a younger age, but they are also being exposed to technology at home and at school. Parents need to limit their children’s use of technology because too much exposure to technology has some serious drawbacks such as …show more content…
According to a national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation (2010), young people devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes to using entertainment media across a typical day. Children may be spending the majority of their day inside playing Xbox, or playing games on their phones, rather than playing outside. Children are not getting enough exercise that they need, and consequently, they are gaining more weight. Weight gain occurs when children increase their snacking along with not getting enough exercise, which is a consequence of spending too much time on technology. From personal experience, whenever I am watching a show on Netflix, I might get bored, and I automatically grab a snack, even when I am not hungry; eating when I am not hungry has been a consequence of spending too much time on technology, when I could be spending my time elsewhere. If parents do not limit the amount of time children use on technology, their children are more susceptible to contracting diabetes, heart failure, or liver disease. No doubt, parents need to limit their children’s technology usage in order to keep their children active and