As a pleased father of two, I'm consistently wary about exposing my children to large quantities of one thing. Fifty years of existence have taught me that large amounts of one thing, no matter what it is, can be damaging to your health. I was wary of the idea of my children having cell phones, and it was justified. I witness kids (some that could even be in grade school) gawking at their iPhones for hours, oblivious to the real world. Kids must be getting outside, enjoying life, making friends, and just loving life. The quantities of technology our young ones are being persistently bombarded with every hour is very scary.
For my own children, I limit them to three hours daily on the television, three hours daily on the Mac(with studying as an exception) and three hours daily for Playstation. I find these restrictions are completely acceptable. My children, though, don't. When they started at Mount Caramel, they began observing their peers with iPhones. Of course, they soon were pressuring me to buy them cells of their own. I was first against the idea. Recent cells are like mini computers, and I predicted they would waste all day messing around with their phones.
My view began to alter when my children told me about some of the positive aspects of phones and computers. They revealed how the internet can be used for group studying with skype, online encyclopedias, books online, and much more. When was time for my children to commence their LSAT test prep, they told me that there are many iPhone test prep apps. Who could have thought an iPhone could be a tool for test prep? I told my kids that I would buy them cells, and if they scored above a twenty on their SATs, they could hang on to them and I could cover the bill through higher education. They accepted, and downloaded an program called Watermelon express. I would greatly recommend it to all the students out there. I'm proud to announce that my kids indeed got well above their score limit, and I have an enormous cell phone bill!







