It is no longer unusual to see kids not up to ten years of age owning phones and tablets. Kids and toddlers already know how to surf the internet and utilize social media. They know how to go after whatever it is they want on the internet to the extent that it gets more and more difficult to put it in check. Of course, this will serve as a distraction for many of them. Because a phone has so many uses and it can do just about anything you want it to do. And in the hands of a child, it can be a bomb waiting to explode. My question now is, are kids more distracted now than we were back when we were in school? During my time, having a phone was a luxury. If I am to go even further to when I was in primary school, there were even some families that didn’t have phones then. What used to be popular was business centers, akin to payphones. Can we say this generation is more distracted than the generation back then? Well, first off, a lot of things are different about both generations. Back then, our environment was not so tense. Even though there were reports of kidnappings and ritualism, it was not as bad as it is now. And so, our parents were able to comfortably allow us to go out and make friends. We have good friends in our neighborhoods, had them in church or our places of worship, and we had them in school. And as such, wherever we went, there was always the possibility of us having a good time. And the good time was always with our friends. During that time, all we liked was just to be left alone so we could play with our friends. That was our biggest distraction then. We would conveniently forget that we had to do assignments or read our books and spend the entire evening running around the yard and screaming to the high heavens. And then, apart from that, we also had the Television. Nothing made us forget we had work to do than having our favorite cartoon or TV shows airing. How would we miss it? Sometimes, our parents would have to resort to creating a timetable for how we would use the TV just so that we would have time for our books and house chores. As I said, those were our biggest distractions. But now, as kids are having smartphones up and down, and the world is going digital, the physical world is not helping matters at all as everyone seems to be hell-bent on killing every other person. So parents are keeping their kids inside and the only escape they have is their phones. The majority of their friends are digital, and most of the meetings and playtime they have are online. These days, if a child is yet to do his assignment, it is probably because he is chatting with someone, engrossed in a video he is watching, or playing a game. The coming generation is getting more and more tuned into the life of an introvert, finding comfort in their own company and their devices. Personally, I do not think one generation has more distractions than the other. It is just the times and how those born of it are making do. There will always be distractions, it is up to the individual to decide just how distracted he wants to be. A lot of filthy content was not readily available back then as they are now, but still, children of our time still managed to get their hands on them. How much more now? It all boils down to the individual. And then, parents would have to be more vigilant because the way I see it, child raising will keep getting tougher and tougher as generations progress because the lines between what is right and what isn’t keeps getting blurred, and telling the difference keeps getting harder just as much. I am not saying that kids should not be allowed to have phones, I am just saying that the phones should not be allowed to take over their lives. Because if they become addicted to the phone from a young age, it would be hard to separate them from it when they get older. I guess we can only watch and see what the future holds for us in this regard.
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Right, I don't think it's just the kids well i might just call myself a kid because im almost on this same lane. It takes maturity and discipline for us to know when our phones is taking over us and how we should correct ourselves or restrain from it.
Maybe we should monitor the child and know when they are able to handle a device without being overwhelming. This shows that they can control themselves on how they use a smartphone.