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From the Ted Talk by Sonia Livingstone: Parenting in the digital age

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Parenting and technology. Parents are full of questions about the digital future. What’s good or bad technology? What will help or hinder their clhid? These are not easy questions to answer, and our society is struggling with them.

I’ve always been fascinated by how fielamis ebarcme new technologies, perhaps because I was bruhogt up by a mother who wouldn’t have any technology in the house at all. When I became a social psychologist in the 1980s, I began asking families about what was new. Then, it was “where to put the home computer?” “Should children have a television in the bedroom?” Parents were werorid about violence and aedniistvrg. And they weren’t sure what the benefits were going to be, but broadly they were optimistic.

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Parenting and technology. Parents are full of questions about the digital future. What’s good or bad technology? What will help or hinder their _____? These are not easy questions to answer, and our society is struggling with them.

I’ve always been fascinated by how ________ _______ new technologies, perhaps because I was _______ up by a mother who wouldn’t have any technology in the house at all. When I became a social psychologist in the 1980s, I began asking families about what was new. Then, it was “where to put the home computer?” “Should children have a television in the bedroom?” Parents were _______ about violence and ___________. And they weren’t sure what the benefits were going to be, but broadly they were optimistic.

Solution


  1. brought
  2. embrace
  3. families
  4. worried
  5. advertising
  6. child

Original Text


Parenting and technology. Parents are full of questions about the digital future. What’s good or bad technology? What will help or hinder their child? These are not easy questions to answer, and our society is struggling with them.

I’ve always been fascinated by how families embrace new technologies, perhaps because I was brought up by a mother who wouldn’t have any technology in the house at all. When I became a social psychologist in the 1980s, I began asking families about what was new. Then, it was “where to put the home computer?” “Should children have a television in the bedroom?” Parents were worried about violence and advertising. And they weren’t sure what the benefits were going to be, but broadly they were optimistic.

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