Is Technology Ruining The Family Summary

Tempting smells of dinner linger in the air and lead to the kitchen where different food bubbles and sizzles while cooking. The table is set and a picturesque family sits together to eat and enjoy one another's company. However, they aren't conversing. It seems as if they are ignoring one another completely until it is obvious what they are doing. Each one of them is staring intently and absorbing information from a technological device. Teenagers check their phones constantly, and even young children have their own phones with which they are wholly consumed. Vicki Turner can relate to this in her life. Along with raising her three kids, ages 16, 13, and 7, and working a job with handicapped children and adults, the 43-year-old resident of

Parents can be spending just as much time on their technology, and could even be ignoring their children. They could be working all day and come home to look at their computer or phone all night. Even if they are doing work, they are ignoring their family and the effects are showing. Parents do not have the connection with their children that they once did. In the article, "Is Technology Ruining the Family," the author discusses the effect cell phones have had. "Many child development experts as well as a Stanford University study seem to think that children today are now competing with technology for mom and dad's attention." Children now have to try to be more important to their parents than the technology. How is this a productive way to raise the current and growing generation? What are they learning from this example? The first five years of a child's life are the most influential and can change the rest of their life. We must be sure that we are giving them the information they need to be successful. They need to be learning to socialize and to be with those they love, not to stare at a cell phone all day and pretend that people in their lives are unimportant. Although cell phones allow parents to stay in contact with their children, there are times when it is appropriate to use and there are times when it is not. It shouldn't become such a large part of our lives that it prohibits us from enjoying the company of those around us. Also, as states in the article "Is Technology Ruining the Family" the author writes this about teens and parents, "Add the fact that parents and teens often communicate electronically to the mix and it only makes sense that you are going to have delusional bunch." Although they are communicating, it isn't helping their relationship and is equivalent to them not talking at