Similarities Between Deborah Prendergast And Linda Sidner

In the safer kids summit Deborah Prendergast and Linda Sidner was invited to speak about if tweens are ready for cell phones or not. According to Deborah tweens are all ready for cell phones as reference to her statement age 10 to 12 is just about right. But apropos to Linda’s statement she stated wait until they are older as tweens are young for their age and might get access or involved to inappropriate stuff. Although both authors presented their argument Linda Sidner’s argument Was better supported as it had ethical and factually informative data.

One example of Linda Sidner’s stronger argument is hard presentation of evidence backed up with logistics, as she says giving children their own cell phones will make them less safe not more.

As parents tend to worry about their child safety issues, they might allow their child to have cell phones as it will help them to communicate with their parents to know where location. But sometimes parents can get careless only as they’re focusing on where their child’s whereabouts to the point which they get forgot to be informed with whom their child actually is . On the other hand, Deborah states that giving tweens with their own cell phones will help them communicate with their parents and so can their parents communicate with them. Also it will help tweens to have a sense of empowerment and will make parents feel secured. But letting tweens be lonely and alone with the technology without parental observation can equally be cause of danger and will not bring any secured feeling. Therefore Linda’s argument seems to have more credible evidence making her argument better

From her authoritative perspective she seemed more credible for her claim that twins are unsafe with cell phones. She also includes a study survey on middle school children, more than 90% of children use cell phones just to text or to go to the Internet. The study also found that from grade 3 to 5 and in between 14% and 19% of children were reported to being victims of cyber bullying. Linda also states that if the ones getting bullied are if their own children or if their own children are the bullies. Apropos to the statement of Deborah Prendergast stated a claim with psychologists statement where it says age 10 to 12 is a time for growing independence, learning responsibility. But this statement if tweens will be safe with cell phones or if tweens are ready or cell phones or not is not included. Also Deborah’s statements seemed more biased as she is more into persuading parents to let their children have their own personal cell phones as it will increase the profit on sales of cell phones of her telecommunication company. Whereas the claim of Linda Sidner’s proved with statistical evidence seeks truth and is a fact based present in the reality of a tween with a cell