Children into computers younger than ever
Date: Jun 7, 2007
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http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0706/070607-electronics.html
Children are using and owning consumer electronics from a younger age than ever before, according to US market researcher NPD. Its research shows the average age at which children begin using computers, games and other electronic gadgets has declined from 8.1 years in 2005 to 6.7 years in 2007. The NPD report, “Kids and Consumer Electronics Trends III”, says the youngest consumers are also getting choosy about what they buy. More and more young children now own a DVD player, portable video game, digital camera or cell phone. NPD’s Anita Frazier said: “Kids are drawn to the latest and greatest digital devices just as their parents are.” She added: “They appear to have no fear of technology and adopt it easily and without fanfare, making these devices a part of their everyday lives.”
The study is based on data collected via an online survey to a sample of American adults aged 25 and older who had children aged between four and fourteen. The survey also found that kids use electronic devices an average of three days per week. Surprisingly, many of the families surveyed were not regular consumer electronics buyers. Almost 25 percent of parents surveyed said they had made no electronics purchases during the previous 12 months. Father of two Robert Garside, 38, said he was amazed at what his children want to buy. He admits to often having to ask his nine-year-old how to operate his Sony PlayStation. “Children nowadays are so tech savvy that soon Sony will bring out a PlayStation for babies,” he said. His son Robert Junior said all the gadgets around him really were child’s play.
My opinions on the news:
Sine the E-world time is coming; we can’t live life without technology. When you been to the office, the first thing came to your eyes is computer, people now rely on the electronics to communicate, share happiness, spread the knowledge and to provide a learning channel, including cell-phone, web site, television, games machine, digital camera, music player, electronic dictionary and so on.
The fact shows that electronics make our modern life much easier, for instance, the high-tech, screen-centered life style of today’s children, they are starting to use computers at home and at school at a very young age. Children nowadays born to live in the world which depends on the high-tech, so they take this progress for granted, on the contrary, adult aren’t familiar with the change of their life. In some aspects, they must keep up their paces, and learn the new inventions they didn’t need before. To stand in their positions and see into their eyes is a big challenge, and the adult need much more time to adopt what they aren’t so necessary. That’s one way let people to realize why children have no fear of technology and adopt it better than the adult.
Not only need to learn the new skills but broaden their minds’ range. Now the world’s passage is trying to let them agree that electronics make their life much easier. As to children, they stay in the period of curiosity, they dare to dream, to try and to create, finding out new inventions and make them be parts of their lives is fun. The positive attitude makes them learn much faster than adult, new generation also carries the responsibility to the “never stop” world growing, they aren’t just create but accept. Within recreate and people steps by steps to follow like a running circulation, getting more and more and more brainstorming, the world seems like the nature resources, always filling the vital stream in the sea.
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