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

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21st century, technology

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developed drastically and contributed to the different changes happening around us today.

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can lead to addiction and excessive usage of different gadgets

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as smartphones, which is

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common among children.

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essay will be discussing the reason for

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trending issue, the merits and demerits together with my opinion.

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, adolescents and teenagers

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to

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mobile

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often because of the things they find entertaining in them

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as games,movies and animations or cartoons, which can have negative or positive impacts

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their developmental stage.

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, there are several disadvantages of frequent

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of

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which includes distraction from studies and not having time to socialize with other family members.

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buy their

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phones

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for calls but

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instead

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the kids

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the opportunity to play online games and

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cartoons.

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, the advantages of

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, expanding the child's thinking ability by downloading games

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as puzzle and scrabble which are

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which

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help

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increase their spelling and

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them

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know and learn

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lesson from the educational movies they watched. To sum up, I think it is a positive development,

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with parental guidance to direct and regulate the

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phones

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help them make the best choices on what they should

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in online.