Technology is Changing the Childhood We Once Knew

By Emilia Ismail

October 2020 FEATURE
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The best age to expose preschool children to technology is above three years old.
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IF YOU THINK millennials – those born in 1980-2001 – are selfie-taking hipsters, well, think again. Many are now parents to Generation Alpha (2010-2025); the generation that commenced the same year Instagram and the iPad came into existence.And as YouTube replaces MTV and Saturday morning cartoons, and toy trucks and traditional games are exchanged for apps, it is starting to dawn on millennial parents that their children’s childhoods will be very different from their own.As a boy, engineer Wan Nor...

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Emilia Ismail

is a freelance writer who has a love-hate relationship with the weighing scale.

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