I hate it when people say technology is taking away kidsâ childhoods If anything, itâs actually giving kids more of an opportunity to let their imagination out
A lot of times when I let kids play on my phone, they go for the drawing app. I watched a girl on the bus write a silly poem about her friends and then laugh as she made Siri read it I hear children say to their friends âhey, FaceTime me laterâ because they still want to talk face to face even when theyâre far away. I see kids sitting, who would feel lonely and ignored if it werenât for the fact that theyâre texting their friends who are far away. Children still climb trees. They might just take a selfie from the top to show off how high theyâve gotten. They can immediately read the next book of their favorite series on their Kindles. Most kids would still be up for a game of cops and robbers. Or maybe theyâd google rules to another game they havenât played yet. When children wonder why the sky is blue, they donât get an exasperated âI donât knowâ from tired adults. They can go on Wikipedia and read about light waves and our atmosphere. They show off the elaborate buildings they created on Minecraft.
Technology isnât ruining childhoods, itâs enhancing them.
Love this post so much to counteract much of the pessimism surrounding technology and kids. Itâs not stealing kidsâ innocence, just another means of expressing it. And so often do I hear that all kids do these days is âplay on their phonesâ instead of doing other things, itâs starting to sound like a broken record. >.>
Heck, it reminds me of the first time our family got a computer; sure, I was on it all the time, but it afforded me a chance to talk more often with my best friend at the time. It filled in that boredom that would have otherwise been filled with TV and made me curious about the world.
