Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Ideal age access to computers

What do you think is the ideal age for a child to be introduced to computers? Why?

Child varies from person by person. With regard to individual diversity, different children have different ideal ages to be introduced to computers. However, the ideal age depends on whether children already have maturity to use computers for proper purposes and is able to distinguish useful and harmful information. When they are young, vast majority of them usually have weak self-control ability. If parents or teachers don’t give timely guide, they probably overuse or inappropriately use computers. For example, they may addict to computer games and spend too much time in front of screens which may cause some health problems including myopia, pains on wrist, neck, and backbone. Moreover, they will expose to mass mixed information from internet which may have negative effects on formation of their values of life. Children are still too young to make the correct choice due to lack of experiences. Until they grow up and gradually reach physical and metal maturity, it then will be the right time to introduce them to computers. Moreover, they must be able to understand that computer is a useful tool for study. It is not be just used to play games. Only when they reach the best age for using computer can they make best use of computers.

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