Is anyone bothered by the fact that today kids at the age of nine and on are already with a smartphone? Why do parents buy them these electronics, do they have an idea how much a kid can know and look up, I don’t think they do. At that age we did had a smartphone too in other words, the house phone, to me this was smartphone due to the fact that if you were talking on the phone and a family member picked up the other line just to be noisy trust me that phone would make the pick sign before it got to the person’s ear and the speaker was covered. Mind you at our age and apple and blackberry were just simply delicious fruit. The only phones I knew were Nokia and the famous Motorola and beeper. But our childhood was the best, playing hide and seek, tag, card games and so much more. I wish I can go back in time but that will never be possible.
Being that I work with kids I see this quite a lot. 9/10 parents give their child an advantage in the technological advanced world just to spare of few moments of silence. They do not think that by giving them access to these new technologies can be traumatic. For example, the kids who have recently been committing suicide because of social media; due to bullying. Just 11 years old and 5 years old. Its sad!
I’m sure that’s ppl said bck in the day too. “How come just get to listen to the radio?!” “How come kids just get to have jobs in factories?!” “How come kids get to have electricity?!” “How come kids get to have fire?!” The cycle of being envious of younger generations is endless. they’ll always get access to cooler stuff than what we had, growing up.