Technology and its effect on children || by @mediclight2 || 27-8-22

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Good day to all my fellow steemians. Today I would like to talk about technology and its effect it has had on children. Everywhere we go today like the restaurants, parks almost everywhere almost every child own a mobile phone. Research shows that 88% of children has a mobile phone. However the rapid increase with which children own a phone poses so many questions about the effects it has. Let's look at a few positive effects technology have on children.

positive effects of technology on children

Improves learning: In recent years technology has infiltrated the classroom and things like TVs, camera's and computers has been put in place for learning. This has helped both students and teachers to increase their creativity and make them do more scientific projects.
Also technology has made learning easier for toddlers as are some mobile apps can be easily download for the child to use. These apps helps the child to learn numbers, colours, alphabet and so on before schooling.

Nurturing future technicians We all know that in the near future we have to depend on technology more than ever so exposing children to technology helps the child to have an interest in studying technical engineering in schools

Negative effects of technology on children

Relationship and social skills
Social skills are developed through physical interaction but this is limited as children always use their mobile phones. Most children prefer connecting with friends virtually rather than spending time with them physically which is somewhat ludicrous.

Health issues mobile phones when overused can be harmful to children's health because of the harmful rays emitted from it. Not only mobile phones even televisions and computers emitts these rays. All these causes eye problem and brain cancer.
As the kids spend so much time with the device they forget about physical activities they ought to do like jogging running etc to keep their body fit thereby leading to weight gain and some other health problems.
Many children use their phones too much thereby depriving themselves of sleep. Sleep is very important is for children. When they don't get enough sleep it reduces the capability to learn as its weakest the brain and it also affects the heart.

conclusion

Technology is really helpful to children but the bottom line is that either the parent or guardian should try controlling their kids so they don't use it too much. These kids are our tomorrow so we have to cherish them.
I remain @mediclight2

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