Who uses tech gadget?

I recently had a chat with a little friend a neighbour too who is currently eight years of age. What amazes me about this little girl is the amount of knowledge that she has about tech gadgets. The techie’s stuff that she does, I haven’t even tried it myself and she picks up things so fast. She took me back to my childhood and made me reflects at things that I used to do at that age, actual the dissonance is quite vast. In my childhood children used to play outside all day, riding bikes, playing sports and hide and seek. Believe me those games used to keep us entertained almost the whole day especial during school holiday period. Children nowadays don’t really partake in those activities they use technology for the majority of their play and even school tasks. She started using internet when she was six, when given tasks at school to research on Google as she say. The amount of time that they spend in entertainment technology (TV, Internet, video games, iPads, and cell phones) has doubled so rapidly. 

What impact these technologies have on these little ones. Cris Rowan a (Paediatric Occupational Therapist) states that technology devices grossly limiting challenges to their creativity and imaginations, as well as limits necessary challenges to their bodies to achieve optimal sensory and motor development. I personally agree with this judging from the lifestyle these kids live it complements this. In most occasion kids always occupied by their gadget, and that has an impact on child’s development both physical and psychological.   

Parents need to start monitoring these tendencies at the early age because this can result to drawbacks to children academic due to the dependence on technology. Either way, society has to adapt to the fact technology is a staple in life and this is not likely to change any time soon. If anything, technology will continue to progress and become even more immersed in daily living.

Parents need to take part and start to be educators and moderators to their kids when it comes to children engaging in virtual technologies. Know what your kids are up to in these platforms.

Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cris-rowan/technology-children-negative-impact_b_3343245.html