How Should Children Use Technology Gadgets?

Did you know, that 29% of children use tech gadgets as toddlers and 70% comprehend them completely by primary school age. Surprising?(Seales & Harding, 2013). Imagine that your children can utilize smartphone or tablet before they can even talk. It is not surprising since children nowadays are disclosed with those gadgets by their parents as a babysitter while they are busy. Most of parents give their kids gadgets to comfort and calm them by watching videos and playing games. As we all know, currently, innovation are developing faster and getting more brilliant consistently and video games can be played anywhere, anytime and even with people around the globe, more likely as intuitive social platform. Most of the social community say that gadgets actually help the children in their learning process through the early stage. But, is it genuinely beneficial for them and their future. Hence, we disagree that gadget can effect their growth positively since mass media and interactive games which children are exposed to can influence or change their psychology and sociology negatively.

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Parents today do install children games with intention to allow their children to be able spend time with their gadget. For real, online game can effectively build social skill among children unnoticedly. Through online games, interaction with unknown people sometimes be a key to succeed a mission. This provide opportunity for children to learn how to interact with unknown people with appropriate approaches which may include persuasion and instructions to others. Tan & et al. (2016) claim that even the amusement of game was intended for logical reasons of helping them procure social abilities information, the learners saw the games particularly as a hedonic framework. This phenomenon will motivate children to keep playing games and improve social skills unnoticedly which is good for their soft skills they going to use in the