Over the last several years technology has grown bigger than ever before impacting children across the world. The amount of screen time kids have these days is ridiculous and is getting worst day by day. Mostly teens are affected but adults can also face this form of addiction in some cases. Screen time addiction has started becoming a problem the last decade growing as a disease to the world. Publicly everyone has become a huge way antisocial doing everything through tech rather than in person. Psychologist have notice the changes in kids moods and physical attributes. Underdevelopment of the brain …show more content…
Gaming systems and new phones have made new ways of developing the mind causing new things to happen. More health problems are being discovered and growing more and more every day. In the article “When Technology Addiction Takes Over Your Life” Jenn Hoffman said “My Blackberry runs my life. ” Email, PDAs, iPhones, laptops, and cell phones dominate our modern world. Through the process of multi tasking it is making the brain busy and developing what it needs to do. Teens in the United States spend about nine hours using media. Affecting young people's lives and reshaping childhood and adolescence. Children used to play outside all day, riding bikes, playing sports and building forts, technology causing a disintegration of core values. Devastating effects technology is having not only on our child's physical, psychological and behavioral health. affecting families of america that lead to society's problem showing more as a …show more content…
Getting more physical exercise can help decrease the health problems like overweight that's caused by having so much screen time in one sitting. NBC showed a video from [Dis]Connected where a child was distant and rather spend time with technology. Keeping their kids outside is the main point for them to stay in touch with natural words other than just digital. Forgetting everything else is the easy way out and having fun with so much screen time. Kids spend on average 9 hours a day using their smartphone or computer. If you put on account that is more sleep or time you spend in school for classes. On some devices you can lock or block what they do or how long they use them. Ensure that educators know how to use the tools in developmentally appropriate