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? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Nowadays the tendency can be noticed that

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spend more and more free

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using their

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trend seems to fit the current era of technologies, in my opinion,

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negative development because

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learn to use devices

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of communicating and playing with other

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. First of all,

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smartphones

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or tablets by the youngest

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can negatively affect the development of their personality.

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spending hours every day on their gadgets, they do not explore themselves, their abilities and interests.

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, they do not learn drawing or cycling as

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traditionally do, so they are most likely to become indifferent to

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experiences and joy. They just will not know that virtual reality is not the only thing where they can basically exist and express themselves.

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,

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who spend all their childhood on their devices skip one of the most significant stages of growing up: they do not explore the world which surrounds them so they will struggle with adaptation to

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of adult life when the

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comes.

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, these

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avoid chatting with their peers or even their parents, so they do not develop their emotional intelligence.

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aspect may cause the strongest mental diseases in

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future because they will not understand their own emotions as well and so they will be unable to help or support themself.

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of the kind of “digital natives” will suffer from

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permanent anxiety and will be scared even more

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the fact that he or she has no idea what and why is happening to them.

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, spending a lot of

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on

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does have some positive aspects, too.

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tendency makes

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literate from the very beginning of their user experience.

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, some especially curious

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may profit from the endless amount of information stored

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the Internet.

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of asking their parents why the sky is blue, they have access to the more relevant and clear

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online. In conclusion, I strongly believe that

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should not spend as much

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on their

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as the majority of them do now. Despite the fact that digital skills may be lively in

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future,

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“digital childhood” forms the wrong world perception. And the harm caused by it

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its benefit.