Jared+M’s+2015+OpEd+Article

=__**The Frustration when an Elementary Kid has an Iphone**__=

A Muckraker Edit by: Jared McCracken


===Now really, how many times have you passed someone in public and thought, "how do you already have an Iphone, you're way to young." The only thing you can imagine is their parents paying for a broken phone every month, just to keep their ADHD child at bay.=== ===I've always felt that this is one of the main reasons that America's attention span is exponentially decaying over the years. By giving these kids these devices at a young age, we adapt them into this generation of people who can't focus for long periods of time, which is a huge problem when studying for school, working a job, driving cars, and many more things that have become crucial to 21st century life.=== ===As a parent, if you give into a very young child's demand for an Iphone, you're not a very food parent. It's extremely selfish to give them the Iphone and jeopardize their future simply because you want them to stop bothering you. Or, just because you bought your child an Iphone, doesn't make up for all the events/things that you missed that were important to them.=== ===Personally, I blame bad parenting on this huge problem.Furthermore, it bothers me even more when people buy Iphones, Ipads, or whatever when they can't pay for food, clothes, rent, car insurance every month. It's just like... "come on get your priorities straight."===