Teenagers try to go without gadgets
“Teenagers in Los Angeles in the US have been taking part in an experiment to find how how they would cope without their electronic gadgets for a week. The 15 and 16-year-olds gave up their mobile phones, mp3 players, TV, radio and other electronic luxuries, and discovered that it was like to trying to kick an addiction.”
“I had a dream about my phone.”
“I was listening to the birds and the trees and everything and was like, ‘this is nice.'”
This is so amusing to me, but still quite true because when I was in Brazil, and didn’t have a cell phone, and only had access to the internet every four days, I realized how much we rely on technology to entertain us. What did our parents do to entertain themselves? Well, TV was invented around the time when mine were growing up, but what did our grandparents do? Read books, play sports, etc. We need to go back to that ideal in this age because although technology is amazing and has succeeded in surpassing limits we never thought we would reach, the simple way of life is also ideal. Generations survived with those simplicities for years and years, and we could benefit from raising our children with those same ideals as well.
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