Essay

Stephanie Parker World Literature and Composition Susan Motley February 28th, 2012 = = = **Children behavior is worse because of today’s technology** = ===Advances in today’s technology have lead to children’s behavior significantly worsening in the past years. Technology may be good in certain areas of our lives but it also encourages inappropriate behaviors and languages leaving parents and teachers helpless in authority. Technology exposes children to things like violence and sex. Technology is everywhere and it brings children to the point of obsession and dependability.===

===The advent of cable TV, the Web, PCs, laptops, IPods, I Pads, Nintendo DS, Entertainment systems in cars, cells phones, and social networks like Facebook only conclude to one thing; technology is everywhere and reaching more out towards children. Today it’s common to see a child playing with their Nintendo or IPod rather than, the parents preferred, going outside and playing with their friends. When and not if technology captures the attention of young children it often exposes them to things children in the pass wouldn’t have thought about. Those things include violence and sex.===

===Exposure to young children starts to influence them emotionally, physically, and mentally. Children that are desensitized to violence, sex, bad languages, and back talk to authorities that leave teachers and parents feeling helpless and overwhelmed. Being at a young age, children curious and don’t truly understand right from wrong. Technology can’t tell a child from an adult. Everything is free rein.===

===Children today are too attached to their video games or IPods, bringing them to the point of obsession and dependability. Now a days it’s hard for a child to put their electronics away and sit down to read a book. Technology captures children with mindless games or shows and nothing is wrong with it but there is such a thing as too much.===

===Technology is everywhere. At school, home, work and is capturing children’s mind fast. Exposure to young children encourages behaviors and languages that often leave parents and adults helpless in authority. Technology puts a strong hold on children that causes obsession and dependability.===