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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Nowadays everyone around us has access to devices
such
as,
smartphones
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children
. The
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purpose
of these devices
are
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to help
children
in their education but,
unfortunately
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some
children
use their
smartphones
for
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hours
to entertain themselves.
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I believe
this
is
effecting
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affecting
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children
negatively for many reasons. In
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I will first
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explore
why kids are
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smartphones
and explain my opinion in detail.
To begin
with, kids are
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of
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their parents, in modern life almost
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everything
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is done
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gadgets followed by that, individuals have to work with them 24 hours in order to do their work and communicate with
other
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others
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. When
children
see that without understanding the reason behind their
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action
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, they think
that is
the right thing to do so they start spending time
in
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on
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their devices. To be continued, gadgets have many
bad
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negative
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impacts on
children
.
Firstly
, the
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radiation generated
from the device
are
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is
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harmful
for
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to
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their vision.
For instance
, my
ten years old
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ten-year-old
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brother used to spend a lot of time on
laptop
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his laptop
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as a result
, his eyes got
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permanently
ingered
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injured
lingered
. because of
that
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that,
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he had to
ware
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wear
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eye glasses
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eyeglasses
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for the rest of his life. He felt he looked ugly with the glasses and was hardly connecting with
children
. Modern
device
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devices
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not only
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hurt
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children
physicaly
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physically
it
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also
impact
on
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their mental health
negativaly
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negatively
.
Secondly
,
smartphones
are
also
adictive
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addictive
.
children
faslty get attached to things. When they spend hours looking at the screen and playing video games and
whatching
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watching
movies they will get used to that
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routine
root in
and
this
will affect their education
negativaly
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negatively
.
To conclude
,
smartphones
are harmful to
children
in many ways. They
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health and their success in school. I think parents should spend some time explaining
for
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their
children
the correct way of using
smartphones
.
Aditionally
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Additionally
, it is better to give access to
children
on
this
kind of device only when it is vital.
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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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