"When I was a kid"

Anytime I complain to my mom about the computer freezing or ask for a new piece of technology she starts on about the whole “back when I was a kid...” talk, and I swear on time she said “all we had to play with was a stick”. This maybe be a little exaggeration but she is trying to make a point, there was a time before iPhones and laptops. I even remember a time, before iPod touches, where I was playing solitaire on our families 4 inch by 2 ½ inch iPod.  Now I walk in the grocery store and moms are giving their 4-year old’s iPads just so they won’t complain. There is this increasingly large disconnect between children and nature that is creating a generation gap. Kids are spending more time playing with virtual reality then outside in true reality. According to a study by The Nationwide Conservancy “the vast majority of today’s kids use a computer, watch TV, or play video games on a daily basis, but only about 10 percent say they are spending time outdoors every day”. Over the years as the technological age came about kids started spending less time outdoors and more time indoors. The harm this has to children’s bodies range from Vitamin D deficiency to a detrimental increase of child obesity. Is this technology boom worth the effect on children’s health?