Not only adults who use sophisticated gadgets in daily life, kids nowadays also addicted to play gadgets everytime and everywhere, moreover most of new gadgets in market tend to have user-friendly interface compared than old gadgets that which very complicated and its only intended for professional, even teenagers and toddlers looks very fluent to used it.
Futhermore, according to Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) survey’s, most of the children were aged ranging from 8 – 18 years old spend more than 7 hours with electronic gadgets in one day while it is ironically because still on the same survey, the percentage of book readers are tend to be decreasing year by year. Whereas as we know, during the pre-teen age range, children should be prioritized to read a book that could contributed in brain development rather than playing gadgets that can give bad effects on health such as eyesight problem.
Based on the context on this article, parents should be more prudent in giving permission to use gadgets for children, I suggested to avoid giving gadget until 17 years old, because in that age range, the child should be given things that could improve motoric intelligence and developing curiosity like rubics cube or lego, or if parents are keep going to give gadgets in case of introducing technology to children it should constantly monitored and it suggested to install educational application inside such as ebooks or creative games.
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