Saturday, August 23, 2008

Buying Cellphones for Kids

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By Haruka Kabeya (545)

Summery:
Recently several kids have own cell phones, and also as research, 54% of 8 to 12 year olds kids will have a cell phone in the next three years. Cell phone is very useful such as contact with parents and safety; on the other hand, there are some dangerous points. For example cell phone allows kids watching sexual predators accesses, and it risks health.

My Opinion:
I know several kids have cell phone. As there is written in this article, there are good and bad aspect in using cell phone. Of course cell phone is convenient, and some kind of it has GPS, so cell phone can help kids from dangerous. However, kids who have cell phone can contact with unfamiliar people easily, and also communication between parents and kids become decrease because of using cell phone. In conclusion, kids having cell phone is good for them to safe, but before having, parents must consider about dangerous part.

1 comment:

RYOUKO said...

It's common children have cellphone in Japan. I remembered when I worked at cram school, i taught elementaly school students. They were just six or seven old; however most of them had their own cellphone. I felt it was strange; however their parents said, now a days it wasn't peacefull in Japan, so They wanted to know where is their children and also they would like to talk anytime anywhere they want, so I think this situation will be more common in Japan.