Toxic Childhood: How modern technologies is damaging our children

"Did you know 2.0?" The video was launched in 2007. On this video, it was mentioned that More than 70% of 4-year-olds have used a computer. This is disturbing, I am pretty sure that those numbers are higher now. This video is ten years old and the only thing that is possibly different is the fact that they aren't spending their time on computers anymore. They rather use smartphones and tablets in its place, anything that can go anywhere with them.

Having a little ones myself and she is 4-year-old girl, I know that there are some occasions where it is perfectly understandable to let your young child hold on to a phone to watch a cartoon on YouTube kids, Netflix, DIRECTV App, etc. or even playing a game. This will help us as parents to keep them quiet and still for our sanity driving from west coast to east coast, or for when we are stuck in traffic jam for instance!

The downside of this kids don’t interact with each other anymore. They will sometimes don’t like to go play outside, they want to stay playing videogames. Some of today’s kids hate table games. They consider them boring. The communication between all the members of a family has stop gradually because of this also. It is pretty sad that we had lost value in what a family means. kids has become selfish, not like to share or take turns, they like to be loners and suppresses their capacity to communicate and exchange thoughts with one another, which are vital social skills that are necessary for relationships and development in work and personal life as adults. 

As a parent myself, it is an enormous damage that we as parents are doing to our kids, we don’t realize it on the spot and never too late to create a better life for our children’s. They need us and we need to act.