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Smartphones Are Stealing Childhood Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US

Take a look around you and, in cars, shopping centers and restaurants, chances are you'll find young children engrossed, not in the world around them, but in their new digital reality. People have smartphones and tablet computers gripped in their embrace, adopting the new internet-enabled technology as the standard operating platform for their lives, at work, home and play. But it is not only adults who are on the iWay to permanent connection. As parents readily testify, many children don't just use the devices, they are consumed by them. It's very apparent now, everywhere we look, there is a form of technology grabbing our child's attention. In the form of an IPad with the newest application or a new iPhone with an updated App Store, filled with the newest games. Then there are social media, with young children able to have easy access, to a world of follows, likes and comments they aren't mentally ready for. This is changing their behaviors, causing family disputes and exposing children to too much, so young. So how do we handle this?