Nowadays, using mobile phones in children has become a crucial taking point in our society. Children able to harmful in many aspects by using mobile phones is a subject of much debate, while some emphasizing its positive aspects and others highlighting its negative consequences. In this essay, I will share my perspective by discussing the pros and cons and provide reasons and examples why I disagree that using mobile phones can harm kids.
To begin with, the benefits of mobile phones especially for boys and girls, there are many ways to use them for education and entertainment through smartphones on many platforms that provide for kids. That causing to more opportunities to access knowledge and more creativity in kids. Moreover, they can learn anything from anywhere, for example, children can search a new knowledge online that can be applied to their classes. In addition, they are able to use mobile phones in emergency times for potential safety. One example is when kids face criminal situations such as kidnapping, murder, and snatching they can use the automobile alarm function on smartphones to contact police immediately.
On the other hand, there are some disadvantages to using a smartphone that cannot be ignored about the effect on children’s health problems both physical and mental. To be more precise, kids who use mobile phones without limit of time and parents’ supervision cause many health issues, for instance, depression, obesity, and eye effects.
In conclusion, I feel using smartphones on children has many advantages, for example, improving their education knowledge, providing kids’ entertainment, and helping children when unsafety situations. However, there are some disadvantages. For instance, it may affect children’s health problems. I strongly believe that the benefits of mobile phones for children outweigh the drawbacks.
