Is Technology Ruining Childhood

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Blanca Mongelos ENG 101 5005 Prof: Zaleski ESSAY 5B Is technology ruining childhood? The extreme emphasis on technology today is ruining childhood, by promoting an entourage that encourages immobility and discourages traditional play and interaction with other children. Play is a very important facet for childhood development. In the past, the majority of our childhood time was spending interacting with other children, playing with toys and outdoor activities. The growth of technology promotes environments in which toys are unappealing for children and they rather spend all their time inside the house, immobile and apart from other children, thing that is ruining an important developmental aspect of childhood. Personally, I think that many children are not gaining the necessary social skills need it for a successful future, even though that the future seems to be a place full of advance technology everywhere you look at it ; but personal interaction is necessary in order to avoid suffering from mental and behavioral problems. I remember my mother quite often used to come to me with the speech:” my daughter when I was your age….” She will try to describe me her perception of how her childhood used to be, and while having those shorts of conversations, I remember been so grateful to be born at the time I did, because WOW! Those were toughs times for a child, I remember saying, so many differences! And is funny how now when I see my two teenagers, at times I feel they are miles away, absorbed by the always changing social life, the obsessive pull of video games and virtual worlds, as they stare the “YOU TUBE” videos of themselves and their friends, it feels like something is wrong. There is no doubt that probably my parents felt the same way about the things I did as a child, therefore sometimes I think that my fears soon could be diminishes by
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