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Children Under 12 Should not be Allowed to Use Cell Phones/ social media

One of the very important tools of technology and telecommunications, that people use a lot, is smart phones. With the rise of Smartphone's technology, many parents are letting their children use their smart phones. While it may seem to be harmless, the benefits of letting children use smart phones can be argued. Smartphone's can have an impact on a child’s development. Before smart phones, what did children do for fun? Kids used to spend their free time playing outdoors with their friends. This is where children learned to interact with others. They made friends and used their imagination to have fun. Children didn’t require devices to stay entertained, they had to have fun with others. With the availability of smart phones, children are becoming familiar with them at a very early age. This leads parents to feel like they can cause their children to have social problems by using the devices too much or to be disturb for not using smart devices. This leaves some parents in between a rock and a hard place. Although the increased independence that a cell phone might offer a child can be good, it can also be a negative. With a cell phone, your child will have another way to communicate with the outside world that you will have little supervision over. Here some reasons why children under 12 should be banned from using Smartphone's.

First, when a child has contact with a cell phone, they could be danger. This may not seem logical, but cell phones change the lives of children. Applying the rule for a child not to have a cell phone helps the parent feel safer. Because now you know what they are doing and that they are not going on inappropriate sites. Children tend to have more anger against their parents when being in contact with a cell phone, 75% of the world's children are rebellious against their parents and may do stupid things to like go on inappropriate sites to get their attention, If children did not have cell phones it wouldn't give them the opportunity to make fun of others in my words cyber bullying. The child would not have the chance to stay in their room behind a screen and hate on other. Children hate on others because their angry and jealous of what the other people have, 60% of the world's children are angry and jealous of their lives and to make themselves feel better they hate on that person. Moreover, they may lose interest in things they once enjoyed and spend less time interacting with family and friends. And, in some cases, depression and thoughts of suicide can set in. Kids being victimized by cyber bullying may lose interest in school. As a result, they often have much higher rates of defection than non-bullied kids. They may skip school to avoid facing the kids cyber bullying them or because they are embarrassed by the messages that were shared online. Their grades may also suffer because they find it difficult to concentrate or study. And in some cases, kids may either drop out of school or lose interest in continuing their education after high school. Sometimes targets of cyber bullying respond to their intense feelings by harming themselves in some way. For instance, some children's might harm their self-such as cutting or burning themselves. Cyber bullying also increases the risk of suicide, Kids that are constantly suffering through text messages, instant messaging, social media, or apps often begin to feel hopeless and that the only way to relieve the pain is ending their life. As a result, they may fantasize about dying to escape.

Second reason why children under 12 should not have a Smartphone is that it broke the parent-child relationship. Even while smart phones can affect and broke the relationship between a parent and child. The connectivity attached with Smartphone use cannot be the same as the connection which the parent and child are meant to have. Children are still passing through a period of growth, and you need to establish your relationship with them. With smart phones, you have speed and instant answers available; yet this could lead to your kids making bad choices in the long run. They spend most of the time using the Smartphone and not letting a time for establishing set family time that can create memories that last a lifetime. Whether it's movie night, take-out night, game night, or even a weekly family bike ride, all these the cell phones prevent it. And it also prevents the time relaxing and talking with each other.

When family are gathering and children is constantly checking, scrolling, texting, or engaged with the cell phone in their hand, it can feel like they are not fully with the conversation occurs between them. Moreover, after children's come back to home from school, the first thing they ask about it is their smart phones ignoring the importance of sharing their parents how their day was going, so all of this can damage the quality of that relationship. In addition to that, cell phones can make children's feel more connected, but they also can distract them and their family from connecting with each other in person. Children have trouble putting away their cell phone even when it causes problems. They might feel a lack of control over how often they pick up their phone or how long they use it. They might feel the need to constantly check it without a real reason or feel upset if they don’t have access to the phone. For example, if parents take their phones away, they become angry which led to some kind of hate towards their parents thinking that parents prevent them from what they love.

Another reason why cell phones effect negatively on children is that Children are not fully-grown yet, and they are just little adults, their growing minds and bodies make them more in danger to the effects of the environment around them, including all types of radiations generated by all devices and except mobile phones. Children now a days are exposed to technology at younger ages than before. There are different types of radiations generated by mobile phones and unfortunately all of these are harmful for children. Many researchers have proved that absorption is higher in children than adults because their brain tissues are more absorbent, their skulls are thinner, and their relative size is smaller. Moreover, the overuse of the cell phones can lead to vision lose and especially for children. In addition to that using a mobile device before bed reduces sleep time for kids, which can disrupt sleep quality and quantity. Cell phones emit blue light which has been shown to reduce or delay the natural production of melatonin in the evening and decrease feelings of sleepiness. Additionally, children who use these devices at night often do not receive enough high-quality sleep and are more likely to feel tired the next day in which it tricks their brain into thinking it’s needed to stay awake in which it’s distract them from studying and leads to laziness and dizziness so this will result bad academic achievements and failing.

In conclusion, regardless we are in era of Smartphone’s, the smart phone has not only wasted children’s time, but it also destroys them mentally and physically, so parents should not give their kids a Smartphone or have a full control on them while using it. It is parents’ responsibility to recommend their children for not over wasting their time on the phone. It is parents’ responsibility to stay in touch with their children to keep them track that they should only use mobile phones for essential calls, not for overuse which results drives children attention. It is also parents’ responsibility to establish rules on cell phone use. They should require them to turn cell phones off at night. Moreover, parent can keep their children in a common area rather than allowing them to take mobile into their rooms, where they can talk or text message late at the night. While children’s love cell phones, moms and dads can get burned by buying for them. So, it has been left to parents to decide whether they want their children to be more productive or let them overuse their valuable time on mobile, destruct their mind, and let them maintain their private communications. Our kids are a gift from God that we should save it by putting our child on the safe track and giving them the best advice to keep them away from anything that can harm them without their notice. Yet as a parent, you should be careful about the impact that devices such as smart phones can have on your child. At a time when it is becoming commonplace for kids to have their own mobile device, shouldn’t you be worried about what negative impact a Smart phone could have on your child’s growth? (1522 Words)

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