Too Young for Tech?

Take a walk through a Target, Walmart, or Babies R Us, and you'll find a ton of software dedicated to very young children. Add to the fact that there is a myriad of websites for entertaining and educating those youngters....

July 23, 2004

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Take a walk through a Target, Walmart, or Babies R Us, and you'll find a ton of software dedicated to very young children. Add to the fact that there is a myriad of websites for entertaining and educating those youngters. The message is clear -- introduce your children to technology early, because their living in an IT world, and they are our future programmers, IT support staff, etc.

But is that such a wise mantra after all? Some parents, scholars and child development advocates think not. There's growing concern that all this early exposure does absolutely nothing...or worse, can actually hinder child development.

What do you think? Take our quick poll and let us know!

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