Eng 115 assignment 2

In this modern age, Technology has more influence in our way living from transportation to farming but it hasn’t affected everything in a good way. Technology in the use of surveillance for growing children can have severe consequences to their growth. Monitoring toddlers with technology is important to me because it affects communication in the house, the social behavior with the family and the community, and decision making.

The way I think technology can affects communication in the house is by how it separates the children from their parents. Most children nowadays avoid their parents feeling as if they do not need them. I have seen that when kids aren't supervised and have human contact they get to the mentality that they don’t need anyone but themselves. I can say that not having that bond with their parents also affects the way they view the world and the people in it. Using technology can also affect children social life with their friends and families.

Social behavior is important to establishing friends and close bonds with your family, but I see that in these times that the only active social event happing is in social media. Social media has been an ever-growing business and way of communication with their most frequent user being kids and teens. These kids see social media as a way communication and feel compelled to use it to be more connected when it creates a rift with the way kids tell or ask their parents for anything. Another thing about social media is how it makes these kids assume that complete strangers with lot of "followers" would be a reasonable friend when they really don’t know much about them.

Toddlers are not seen as an age of awareness, but it is believed that they learn from anything that is around them and can be said that is what shapes them when they become adults. So, when parents aren't with their child the child may recognize this as abandonment and have a fit. I witnessed this with my little sister when she was left to herself at home for a few hours. This can also affect how the kids make their decisions when they become adults. Their decisions become self-based and they see having as not being able to take care of themselves.

Monitoring toddlers and technology is important to me because I believe technology has affected our children's self-awareness, social life and children and parent communication by its separation of human contact leaving the child feel abandoned and believing that they can only take care of themselves.