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

Nowadays

children

tend to use their phones for relatively a long duration of the day.

This

trend has occurred because of many factors.

While

acknowledging the educational reason that may be one of the factors to overuse phones, I believe that it is a negative development ,especially for their

health

. The following paragraphs will give

further

argumentation on

this

. First of all, the main reason for

children

to excessively use phones is that there are many intriguing activities that

children

can do with them. Watching videos or playing games are examples of

this

. Nowadays, rather than going outside and doing physical activities or traditional games with friends, a phone offers enormous

also

engaging activities for

children

.

Secondly

, entertainment sometimes is not always the reason, there are some

children

that needed smartphones for educational purposes

such

as attending online classes or looking for learning materials.

However

, whatever the case is, using a phone for a big amount of time per day is harmful to one's

health

. The most apparent effect of

this

is the effect on a person's eyesight

such

as myopia, and cataract, the blue ray radiation from the screen will become increasingly dangerous if it occurs for a long time.

Additionally

, when

children

are addicted to a smartphone, it could trigger them to apply a sedentary lifestyle and will lead them to more

health

problems

such

as obesity. All in all,

although

reasons for phone overuse are varied, it is still considered a negative development particularly when a child's screen time is too much.

Hence

,

this

could result in some

health

problems.