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
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.
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