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Some children spend hours every day on their smartphones. Why is this the case? Do you think this is a positive or a negative development?

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 of children wasting
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gadgets
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 basis. Lack of hobbies and early purchase of
phones
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 that unhealthy habit. What are the consequences?
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 reasons
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 that.
Firstly
, parents are buying
phones
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 any distance or in terms of getting
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 needed for school. Parents are
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worried about
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 of their children, so they
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purchasing
phones
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 a quite early age.
However
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phones
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 have a large quantity of
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 functions
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 calls, like videogames and social media. Applications like those are affecting a child like a drug, consuming all of the energy and interest
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 the real world, keeping the child’s mind deep inside the techno-universe. Boredom and lack of hobbies are
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consequently
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 to the long
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. From
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birth, a kid is always craving to know everything he is unfamiliar with. If he hadn’t
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 that curiosity, he probably wouldn’t gain any skills
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throughout
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life. Smartphones are distractors in that educational moment. As an example of
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, when
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 was a kid, my parents would forbid me to use my
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iPad
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 after 5 pm. If they wouldn’t
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done that, I wouldn’t have known how to play
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 violin and piano. So, reducing the
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 helped me to find new activities in
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moments of boredom. Misuse and overuse of
cellphones
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 will lead a person to degradation which later might become even more series
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 like
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depression or health problems. It surely negatively affects on child’s welfare and development. In conclusion, often
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 of using telephones is too usual among
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kids.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • smartphones
  • usage
  • technology
  • accessibility
  • convenience
  • entertainment
  • gaming
  • social media
  • communication
  • educational resources
  • addiction
  • dependence
  • negative effects
  • physical health
  • mental health
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