Jessica Valenti’s article explains that technology is to involved in children’s lives. Technology is being introduced to children to early in this century, children are overly dependent on the internet and playing games on the computer. Children at a young age are supposed to be creative and imaginative but with TV and games replacing them it lacks. Jessica states “I watched a video of a baby desperately trying to”swipe”a magazine with her finger – to that tiny technology native, a print publication was simply a malfunctioning iPad. I remember being horrified (and a tad judgemental)” (Valenti). But then as she realized when “Three years later, as I finished up some work on my laptop, my 4-year-old daughter tried to swipe our television screen. “It’s broken,” she said” (Valenti). Just sad to thing children as young as 4 are overly dependent on electronics, they have replaced there imagination. With technology growing fast over the past century’s Jessica says “But the panic over children’s technology use wrongly assumes that all parents before the internet or Apple were somehow spending hours a day making sure their kids were properly stimulated. Newsflash: We’re all semi-shitty at parenting, and have been for decades.” Technology has taken away from the things kids need the most especially at such a young age, their parents and imagination. As a kid i grew up with a playstation but also I went fishing and camping with my parents all the time as well. Video games were only for rainy days! I spent tons of time with my parents out of the technology era up until I was about 10 and MySpace came into play. The teenage years were spent playing more games ant texting all the time, although outdoor activities were still done just not as much. For children now I see so much indoor activities and rarely outdoor ones. Looking a my younger siblings now I already se a huge change in the ways of parenting and activities. The seven year old would rather watch TV then go play in the rain, crazy times.
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