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Technology is now to teach children to polite. Amazon will soon start a children's version of its virtual assistant Alexa. The new digital assistant will be "FreeTime". The child-friendly device will what Amazon calls a "Magic Word" feature. Of course, there are two magic words: "Please," and: "Thank you." The smart software is to encourage children to say "please" and "thank you" when they the device questions. An example of this is if a child FreeTime: "What is the capital city of Australia?" Alexa will answer and its response with: "Thank you for asking so nicely." Amazon hopes this will children to copy the device and be more polite.

Amazon says the new Magic Word feature is to the many customers who said technology was children to be rude. Many smart devices simply out sentences without using any polite words. Parents said children this way of speaking and forget to say "please" or "thank you". Children also got used to asking smart devices questions without polite. Not everyone happy with this new technology. Josh Golin, executive director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, said: "AI devices... with the face-to-face interactions and child-driven play that children to grow." He believes parents should more time with children and them politeness.