Monday, February 19- Local/State/National Affairs

Monday, February 19

"'Younger and younger kids are becoming more comfortable with the Internet,'" stated a toy consultant in an article on Thursday, February 15. The Vice President of marketing at VTech Holdings Ltd. added to this statement, saying that children as young as three years old are using the computer.
Toy companies are, and intelligently if you ask me, beginning to target children who use the internet. They are inventing games to direct children to certain sites to play games rather than have them roam the internet themselves. This is a good marketing incentive, for it is true, people are learning the computer at younger and younger ages and technology is an exponentially growing economy. There are more job opportunities opening up for people with a superior knowledge of computer programs, and I'm sure there will be even more for these young children when they get older. These toys may help them to grow comfortable, or aquaint them to the technology available to them so they become to know and enjoy it. These children may grow up to have amazing careers, because they became so comfortable with using it at such a young age, in part with help from these games. I think, with parents by their side, these games are great for children, but sparingly.

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