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Kids Under the Age of Ten Should Not Have Cellphones

Nicolas Barragan

ILAC
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Kids Under the Age of Ten Should Not Have Cellphones

Do you know what your children are doing on their cell phones right now? Currently on the

internet, there is a lot of danger that it can affect people, even if it affects a helpless child who

does not understand what they do and thinks that everyone is a friend. A year more than 1500

people are arrested for pedophilia online, and anyway we continue to give cell phones to our

children, brothers or cousins. Given a cell phone to a 10-year-old child, it is opened the world to

the dangers, but the principal question is, who is the blame? Of the parents or the modern

standards that they say that if you don’t have a cellphone you cannot live or the internet because

it does not create a safe platform for the children! . Children under 10 should not have a cell

phone because they don’t have the ability to see what is good or bad form them.

If a father gives a cell phone to his son, at that moment, he is giving him a machine that

apart from bringing games, also connects him with the world and its dangers. First over the years

there have been reports of pedophilia, extortion, abduction of children, and that was before the

age of the internet. Currently, cases have increased by 45%. The reasons are simple because they

are helpless beings, which can easily scare. This makes the world better for abusers. Second

affects the development of the child's brain, since excessive exposure to new technologies causes

cognitive delays, attention deficit and lack of self-control. But not only that the problem is

affecting his normal development and getting used to a lifestyle, that when he is older it will

affect his health. And only with the excuse that it is for his safety or lack of time to Give the

necessary dedication to your own child.

Many studies have shown that children under the age of 10 do not have the capacity to

identify whether something is good or bad, over the years many people have taken advantage of

this, to abuse and do what others say. Who were the first to do that? The older brothers, who
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bother them just for the fact that they are smaller than them. The cause of this is the part of

knowing a new world, where when the little one is born, he is only surrounded by the family, and

he is used to Everyone goes to do like them and when they go out to the outside world the

discovery begins. Generally, the effect it causes on children is that they cry a lot and do not want

to go out again, but it is only a moment. A help is always talking with your children about all the

dangers that exist on the internet and that they should always warn when something suspicious

happens. Many of these children are left with traumas that will affect them for life, and they will

be afraid to have an outside contact because every person who sees outside will remember them

with what they lived in the past.

On the other hand, the companies of video games for cell phones are profiting, since they

invented something called micro payments, what the developers do is take out a free game, but if

you want to win fast and keep playing you must make minimum payments but very continued.

the companies know that most players are children between the ages of 6-10, and so they can

download the free games they must have registered the credit card of the parents, and they know

that the children only pay and do not watch the amount. Many companies have been sued for

these acts, but come out victorious by saying that they do not charge for the game and the profits

they get is through micro-payments, since it's up to pay a lot of people who got involved in the

creation of the game .and that's not all these companies are saving your data to sell them to other

companies and know what you like and show it to you so you can buy things.

Another of the reasons why we should not give a cell phone to a child under 10 is

because at that age develops the behavior of the child, if at a young age the child starts playing

violent video games is more possible than in the future develop an aggressive behavior. This is

because the game generates a fantasy environment that the child is not able to see that these
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behaviors can cause negative consequences for him. Some children accept violence in games as a

way to handle problems, and the more realistic the game, the more likely that the impact on

children will have consequences. Young children are increasingly exposed to the increasing

incidence of physical and sexual violence in today's media. TV shows portray explicit sex,

murder, rape, torture and mutilation. Many of these games make a striking and censored

advertising to make parents believe that it is a game suitable for a child but many times they

attract parents with violent games of their childhood and buy them from their children to show

them what they played as children. In addition to the games are classified by category, many of

the sellers to only win something with the sale are sold to minors without any kind of

responsibility.

Another reason is that when you give the cell phone to a child you are promoting

sedentary lifestyle Children who are allowed devices in their bedrooms have 30% more

incidence of obesity. One in four Canadians and one in three American children are obese. 30%

of children with obesity develop diabetes, and obese people have an increased risk of stroke and

early heart attack, which shortens life expectancy. This is due to the fact that the most time used

by the cell phones is in a seated form and generally the minimum use they give is 5 hours, and

those hours every day play a very important role in their health.

Many parents will say that the cell phone is a very necessary tool because they first help

their children are connected with them and in case of an emergency they can contact them

quickly, according to what is very useful for the child's academic life since it helps to surf the

internet and find useful and educational information, which will serve you at school. third, which

is a good way of satisfying the child's energy and energy, because as we all know at that age,

children have a lot of energy and with today's society parents do not have time to take the child
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to the park, and better with the cell phone that energy ends, fourth is a good distractor, as there

are times where the father is the son and has to perform other activities and your child does not

leave and it is a good idea to give the phone to the son to play and see videos while performing

the activities, fifth and last reason, many parents give their children cell phones because it helps

their development as well as their coordination and memorization, since there are games and

applications where it helps to exercise the mind as also to continue learning in a more didactic

way.

In my opinion I think that giving a cell phone and electronic device to a child under 10

years old is a bad idea, whatever it may be because in the end it affects the child and even after

turning 10 it is necessary to restrict the use of this, at least that the daily use is of 2 hours and

with the company of the parents. For me the appropriate age for a father to give a cell phone to

his son is the age of 13 years and if he knows that the child is a responsible person and knows all

the dangers that can cause. And I close with the following words Albert Einstein said "I fear the

day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of

idiots."