Picture this: Your 10 year old son regularly surfs the internet on your home computer and you feel happy that the child is technology savvy. What a shocker it is for you then when one day you discover that all he really does is play online games and whiles away precious study time chatting on social networking sites!
How about this: You bring home age specific innocent toys for your 6 year old daughter but she talks with her friends about fashion and dressing up as easily as you!
Kids are no longer as innocent and gullible as a decade back. Parents have always had to keep up with their kids, but the generation gap has never been as wide or as fast progressing as it is in the technology savvy world today. The parents are left flabbergasted with the world of knowledge that their children imbibe at an early age and are generally at a loss about how to channel their abundant energy and thirst for information.
The information age has been a mixed blessing for parents. On one hand where it helped expand the horizons for our kids, the resultant information boom has also made keeping track difficult. Where earlier parents only had to bother with school bullies, now cyber bullies are a bigger menace and what’s more scary is the fact that they are nameless, faceless and sometimes parents are not even aware of their threat. Under such circumstances, it is important to stay vigilant and implement some internet security checks to prevent your children getting access to stuff beyond their age.
Technology improvements mean that the kids have access to mobiles and laptops at an early age and more often than not parents tend to pamper their kids with free internet access. Witnessing their kids playing complex games with ease and their superfast typing speed makes a parent feel proud. But the same parent feels stumped when their kid locks them out of their own computer, or bargains hard for an extremely expensive toy that he has seen at a friend’s place.
With increasing distractions, the heaviest toll is felt on the children’s studies and academic performance. What with unreasonable expectations of parents who want to see all their children get into IIMs or IITs, and school pressure to perform at their highest level, it is no wonder that kids today resort to suicide as easily as taking a pill for fever. The incidence of students and parents seeking professional counseling for depression is on the rise with children as small as 10-12 years succumbing to stress.
With the fast paced hectic life that kids lead today, they are no less stressed than their elders dealing with life changing decisions. What is needed is a sense of protection and gentle guidance in the right direction from elders to keep them from straying onto a dangerous path.
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