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

In

this

21st century, technology

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

This

can lead to addiction and excessive usage of different gadgets

such

as smartphones, which is

mostly

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common among children.

This

essay will be discussing the reason for

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

Firstly

, adolescents and teenagers

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to

use

mobile

phones

often because of the things they find entertaining in them

such

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

in

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their developmental stage.

Furthermore

, there are several disadvantages of frequent

use

of

phones

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

For instance

,

parent

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buy their

kids

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kid's

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phones

for calls but

instead

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the kids

use

the opportunity to play online games and

watching

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cartoons.

However

, the advantages of

phones

includes

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, expanding the child's thinking ability by downloading games

such

as puzzle and scrabble which are

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which

it

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also

help

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increase their spelling and

making

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them

to

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know and learn

life

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

although

with parental guidance to direct and regulate the

use

phones

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of phones

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and

also

help them make the best choices on what they should

engaged

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in online.