9. It Promotes Unhealthy Competition Children Can’t Win
High-tech companies spend millions of dollars coming up with the best ways to keep us spellbound by our phones. From the look of things, they’re succeeding and at a monumental cost. Kids get tired of vying for attention when they see it’s a fruitless cause. Not only are they getting the message that they don’t matter that much but instead of addressing those feelings they go ahead and do the same thing, burying themselves in video games and social media. They compare themselves to other people’s feeds on Instagram and go on to feel even more inadequate. How can they ever measure up? With all the pressures at school and the lack of tangible, emotional support at home they may give up on trying to do well, on impressing anyone else, even themselves. No one wants to compete in a game they know they’ll continually lose. Where’s the fun in that? So they stop trying, they stop communicating and follow your lead. And this leads to the tenth reason to stop your phone addiction. Some kids don’t exactly give up, they become angry and rebellious.
