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Internet Addiction Affecting Children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyMqljINR74
60 Minutes Australia conducted a study on the brain for what affects the internet has on children. Children are beginning to become more agitated and less compliant with their parents if they are not getting enough screen time. They start crying and screaming because they are not satisfied. However, this does stem for the parents. Parents are starting to give their children technology devices while they are working or to keep the children entertained. This is a method that parents think is working to keep their children from being disruptive, but it is doing the opposite. Doctors have done a brain scan on an average child who uses technology regularly to addicted children who use technology too much and the results are shocking. There are changes in the part of the brain with the addicted user that are harming their emotions, decision making, and self control. This same outcome can also come from drugs and alcohol. This is showing that over use of technology is not good for young children.
Internet addiction can be compared to alcohol addiction or a gambling addiction. When people are addicted to the internet, they just cannot get enough. People go online to become anyone they want to be; a superhero, a fiction character, or an animal. It is very frightening when we are now seeing these behaviors in toddlers, children, and young adults. With addiction to the internet, it can be come dangerous to infants because they are now growing into an addiction that is not healthy and can cause harm to their brains. There is now a facility that people can go to when they become an addict to gaming and technology. It unplugs them from the world of technology and has them living in a place that is off the grid. If we as a society see that young children are getting addicted to the internet soon enough, we can stop the addiction and let children live in real time and talk to real people face to face.
60 Minutes Australia conducted a study on the brain for what affects the internet has on children. Children are beginning to become more agitated and less compliant with their parents if they are not getting enough screen time. They start crying and screaming because they are not satisfied. However, this does stem for the parents. Parents are starting to give their children technology devices while they are working or to keep the children entertained. This is a method that parents think is working to keep their children from being disruptive, but it is doing the opposite. Doctors have done a brain scan on an average child who uses technology regularly to addicted children who use technology too much and the results are shocking. There are changes in the part of the brain with the addicted user that are harming their emotions, decision making, and self control. This same outcome can also come from drugs and alcohol. This is showing that over use of technology is not good for young children.
Internet addiction can be compared to alcohol addiction or a gambling addiction. When people are addicted to the internet, they just cannot get enough. People go online to become anyone they want to be; a superhero, a fiction character, or an animal. It is very frightening when we are now seeing these behaviors in toddlers, children, and young adults. With addiction to the internet, it can be come dangerous to infants because they are now growing into an addiction that is not healthy and can cause harm to their brains. There is now a facility that people can go to when they become an addict to gaming and technology. It unplugs them from the world of technology and has them living in a place that is off the grid. If we as a society see that young children are getting addicted to the internet soon enough, we can stop the addiction and let children live in real time and talk to real people face to face.
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