Do you remember being a kid going\noutside when it rained to play with your neighbors? I remember, and those were\nthe best times. I also remember jumping on my trampoline with all the\nneighborhood kids, even running around to play hide and seek until the late\nnight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, children have the option to\nstay inside and spend their time on technology. Is this really even good for\nchildren? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This means that they could lack\ncommunication skills with other children, and even develop negative effects\nlike strained eyes and headaches. Children can now use cell phones to simply\ntext their friend just down the street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can vividly remember calling my\nfriends from our house phone, and hoping my mom didn\u2019t need to use the phone,\nso I could talk to my friends longer. We used to discuss what time we were all\ngoing to meet at the playground, and not what time we were going to all play Fortnite<\/em>. Children can now FaceTime and\nSkype their friends who are just around the corner. I also can remember using\nthe house phone, especially the speed dial feature to call all of my friends to\nask what time their parents got out of work, so they could come over and play\nat my house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking back, it was so much more\nenjoyable to see my friends show up at my front door instead of seeing them\nbehind a screen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although technology is great, and\nextremely useful in the world today, it also prevents children from growing up\nin a social environment. Although it was difficult to remember all of my\nfriends\u2019 phone numbers and not be able to communicate with them throughout the\nday by texting, it was so much more enjoyable to run around each other\u2019s\nbackyards and show off our collection of CDs to put in the radio. I\u2019m very glad\nto have grown up in the early 2000s and see how it\u2019s evolved over time. How\nwill growing up in generations from now even differ from today\u2019s generation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you remember being a kid going outside when it rained to play with your neighbors? I remember, and those were the best times. I… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[186],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":186,"user_id":34,"is_guest":0,"slug":"brenda-riojas","display_name":"Brenda Riojas","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/107d2c5d491817a3a8173264fbc55d8a.jpg?ver=1778678165","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}