Children and usage of technology nowadays

Nowadays , technology is getting developed much more advance, and also there are lots of people becomes wealthy. almost all people of the entire world are using smartphones and more advanced device like iPad, smart TV, etc.. Now there are lots of families are letting children using these technology devices in very early ages.

I read this article about the statistics on children use of TV, internet and videos by Dr Brent Conrad and i found that very interesting.

http://www.techaddiction.ca/media-statistics.html

According to this article, the writer mentioned “66% of all children under the age of two have watched television“, “11% children under eight old use a cellphone, iPod or iPad/tablet“. From what i see, that’s a huge number of children that currently using technology devices. Those number i believe it will increase day by day, and might reach the alert number that government will notice and share their concern about this problem. 66% of all children, that is not a small number at all, its over half of the children in the world, not just in 1 country. I also concern about the age of children using technology devices, parents nowadays even let infants start watching television at 9 months old, that’s too early.

Not just the number of children, their time spent on these advanced device makes me feel much more worrisome. “Children under two have a screen average of 53 minutes per day” . Hello? 53 minutes per day for an infant to spent on watching television? That’s is way to dangerous.

My mother told me when i was very small, my parents never let me watch television or using any of technology devices because it might damage my eye visions, also could makes me become lazy. Instead of that, my parent often hang out with me more often, bought me toys that i can play with.

I think young parents nowadays should follow the same way like their parents used to do when they have children: spend their time with their children more often, take their children to the park so the children can make friends, reduce the children’s time spending on technology devices so that the number of children using technology might decrease, and children can learn much more thing other than from what they see on screen.