Damn Technology

I am finding that the older I get the more I am beginning to see the negatives with technology. Do not get me wrong I am very much up to date with all the new technology. But what I am finding is that children are becoming overexposed and way too dependent on all this new technology. I am a nanny to two boys ages seven and four so I really see firsthand what all this technology does to them. It is very different from when I was a kid. I grew up here in Garden City and there are a lot of parks for kids to go to. As a kid I basically lived at the park. I was there every day after school. I would come home from school, drop my backpack in the house, grab a snack, and immediately run up to the park that was always packed with kids. Now that I am a nanny I am seeing very different things. The parks are never packed any more. And what I am finding is that so many kids go home from school and immediately hit the computers, TVs, iPads, and video games. The boys I watch used to be very gung-ho to go outside and run around for hours. But within the last year I have noticed how addicted they have become to all their technology. The mother of the boys I watch stayed home from work the other week because I had to take off for something and she even mentioned it to me how she went to the park and no one was there. I told her that I try and take the younger one, who is only in pre-k, to the park any day its nice out and how there are many ten people there at a time.  We were both saying how sad it is how technology has changed things. The parents of the children I watch have definitely spoiled their kids with technology but have seen that they have done that and have made some serious changes to better their kids when it comes to technology. I wish more parents would pull back on the technology and force their kids to be kids and run around outside more and find other things to do other than sitting at home on the computer, iPad, xbox whatever it may be.