Beacon Primary -- Xi Yue #SpeakUp2026

Hello teachers, my name is Zhang Siyue. I am 9 years old. I am a primary 3 student from Beacon Primary School. Today, I would like to share about a question that affects almost every child. Are we growing up too fast in the digital age? Imagine this, a child wakes up in the morning and before saying good morning mom, she checks her screen. At breakfast, she watches a video. After school, she checks the screen. Does that sound familiar? The technology is amazing. It helps us to learn, communicate, and discover the world. We're spending so much time looking at the screens that we forgot to look around at the world around us. When my parents were children, they didn't have smartphones, no tablets, they played outside, We're countries. We're particles. be a race. Childhood should be a special time to play, to make mistakes, to learn, to explore, to talk to our family face to face, talk to our friends and laugh with them. We need time to run outside, the sunshine, or even technology is our enemy. Throw our tablets away or stop using the internet, be the boss of technology and not let technology be the boss of us Next time, you pick up your phone or tablet, ask yourself, do I really need this screen right now? A book? Draw a picture? The world is always waiting for us, but our childhood won't. So, use technology wisely. Enjoy the real world.