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Introduction Attention Getter: Introduce cousin, differences in introduction to technology Reason for your audience to listen: Parents don’t care that he plays games all day. Inappropriate in-game actions and words are repeated by him. Introduce your subject and establish credibility: Cousin takes mother’s phone, father’s iPad. This is a problem. Preview your main points: With my experiences, safe to say young children probably shouldn’t have such freedom when it comes to technology and how they use it. Main Body of the Speech I: Cell Phones Connection: - This (raise phone) is my fourth phone. My first phone was a tracfone that I received at the age of 14 when going on an out-of-state trip, paying per minute with little prepaid cards. I’ve never had an iPhone, despite wanting one, and I am okay with this. - My cousin, so far, has begged for a phone. He has one strictly for emergency purposes, but often takes his parents’ phones, both iPhones 6’s, and talks to his friends on them. A: Cell Phones at a young age (The Up Side) a: Kids can be tracked by phones. Parents know where they are. b: They’ll definitely have phones in the future. Having them now prepares for having a better phone in the future. B: Cell Phones at a young age (The Down Side) a: Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center says. “83 percent of middle schoolers, 39 percent of fifth-graders, and 20 percent of third-graders have a mobile device”. Susceptible to cyberbullying and tracking. b: Most articles focus on radiation exposure from cell phones and kids, but a quicker health risk is short-term memory reduction while it is still growing. They listen and focus entirely on the chime of a text. Don’t listen to parents, teachers. Transition: Cell phones have a lot of positives, but people don’t feel video games, another controversial topic, have the same bonuses. II: Video Games Connection: - My first gaming console was the Nintendo Gamecube, a gift from my uncle at the age of 9. I spent time with my mother playing Animal Crossing, Mario Party, and other games that were E for everyone. As I grew up, I continue to play E games, but don’t hesitate to take part in MMO and battle games, like Team Fortress 2 and League of Legends. - My cousin began playing video games at the age of 5, if not earlier. Watching his father playing Resident Evil, he soon took up the player two spot if his mother wasn’t around. He now lives on the couch, playing M rated games like Borderlands, Titanfall, and other first person shooters. A: Video Games (The Up Side) a: Behavioral-scripts. Good actions, good rewards, vice versa. Makes kids learn to make good decisions. b: ESRB, established in 1994, allows parents to know why a game is rated the way it is before purchasing it. B: Video Games (The Down Side) a: Video games vs. shootings, violence. b: Kotaku says “[parents] were asked if they checked the age restrictions of their children's video games before allowing them to play, to which just under two thirds, 64%, answered "no"”. (Kotaku) Transition: Television has more controversy than both because age and existence. III: Television Connection: - My mother has a list of stories about me as a child going crazy over kid shows, be it Teletubbies, Sesame Street, Barney… The list goes on. I was shown only children shows until I grew older, with the exception being PBS showings and the news, and my television watching was very limited. - My cousin does not spend a lot of time watching TV because of his video games, but when he does, it’s usually TruTV’s Most Dumbest or anything pertaining a “schadenfreude” style of pain the audience can laugh at. A: Television (The Up Side) a: Children shows are made to capture children’s attentions as well as feed them positive morals, counting and reading skills, and memorization to solve the character’s problems. “While learning experts surely agree that too much television and inappropriate content can have detrimental effects on children, the right kinds of programs can set them on the path toward reading” (Kathleen Manzo) b: Noggin, established on February 2nd, 1999, showed shows like Oobi, Franklin, and Little Bear all day, every day, until its’ changed to Nick Jr in 2009. Channel for children is good. B: Television (The Down Side) a: Kids under the age of two should not watch television. People either don’t know or don’t listen. b: Television and obesity in kids have a link. Conclusion: Call to action about helping younger siblings get away from technology for a while.