A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting in a Canon Service Center (had to get something fixed for my camera). While I was waiting, I noticed a family sitting on my right, a normal family; father, mother and young daughter, who had probably just learnt how to walk a few weeks back because the girl just would not sit still!
The kid was keeping herself busy by running to empty glasses and picking up their coasters and waving them around, you know, kid stuff!
The parents got a bit worried when the child picked up a glass, so they naturally stopped her. Thus the child immedately became more interested in the glass and kept running to pick it up.
After a few rounds of the child running, the parents grabbing her, etc. The father seemingly gave up, he put his hand into his pocket and removed his phone, turned on some nursery rhyme app and gave it to the kid.
Immediately the child was engrossed with the app and didn't move for the rest of the time I was there.
This simple act, of pacifying a child, scared me. Very simply, because the parents hadn't really done anything to stop the child, they'd don't nothing to make her learn that what she was doing was wrong.
I thought about this a bit more and realised that with technology that is available today, Mothers and Fathers are no longer 'Parents' for they have given up the basic lesson of Parenting, and that is to teach your child.
If any readers who were either children in the 90's (or below) or who had children before the 2000's, I'm sure you've seen the change. Now, children are not taught the value of products, they are simply pacified.
It's become a chore to properly bring up a child with some sort of value system.
Don't criticize me, because it's true. Parents today are much more content with buying their children an iPhone, or a Blackberry rather than make the child understand the importance and value of that phone.
Yes, there is massive amounts of peer pressure, but you know what, that will always be there. If you don't think you can handle your child coming to you and asking for a Rs. 40,000 phone, then don't have a child - you'd probably save a lot of money.
Parents don't seem to realize that this indoctrination to technology and screens is ruining their youth. They'd much rather get an Xbox or a phone than to get a cycle.
Something that my grandparents have noticed is that, Children have stopped writing. Schools now drive home the importance of using computers so much that my grandmother worries that one day, children will stop writing with pen and paper.
It's a terrifying future, and a disturbing notion to realize that we are becoming so reliant on technology that we can't even tell our own children a small song to keep them occupied.
I can't imagine what would happen if the world's technology stopped working. How would parents of the future cope with the overwhelming task of actually telling their children that they can't get them the iPhone 20 because technology doesn't work anymore! Imagine if suddenly parents had to come up with a bedtime story from their own imagination!
I think the prospect might make them rethink having a child - and that is a future that should never happen.
The kid was keeping herself busy by running to empty glasses and picking up their coasters and waving them around, you know, kid stuff!
The parents got a bit worried when the child picked up a glass, so they naturally stopped her. Thus the child immedately became more interested in the glass and kept running to pick it up.
After a few rounds of the child running, the parents grabbing her, etc. The father seemingly gave up, he put his hand into his pocket and removed his phone, turned on some nursery rhyme app and gave it to the kid.
Immediately the child was engrossed with the app and didn't move for the rest of the time I was there.
This simple act, of pacifying a child, scared me. Very simply, because the parents hadn't really done anything to stop the child, they'd don't nothing to make her learn that what she was doing was wrong.
I thought about this a bit more and realised that with technology that is available today, Mothers and Fathers are no longer 'Parents' for they have given up the basic lesson of Parenting, and that is to teach your child.
If any readers who were either children in the 90's (or below) or who had children before the 2000's, I'm sure you've seen the change. Now, children are not taught the value of products, they are simply pacified.
It's become a chore to properly bring up a child with some sort of value system.
Don't criticize me, because it's true. Parents today are much more content with buying their children an iPhone, or a Blackberry rather than make the child understand the importance and value of that phone.
Yes, there is massive amounts of peer pressure, but you know what, that will always be there. If you don't think you can handle your child coming to you and asking for a Rs. 40,000 phone, then don't have a child - you'd probably save a lot of money.
Parents don't seem to realize that this indoctrination to technology and screens is ruining their youth. They'd much rather get an Xbox or a phone than to get a cycle.
Something that my grandparents have noticed is that, Children have stopped writing. Schools now drive home the importance of using computers so much that my grandmother worries that one day, children will stop writing with pen and paper.
It's a terrifying future, and a disturbing notion to realize that we are becoming so reliant on technology that we can't even tell our own children a small song to keep them occupied.
I can't imagine what would happen if the world's technology stopped working. How would parents of the future cope with the overwhelming task of actually telling their children that they can't get them the iPhone 20 because technology doesn't work anymore! Imagine if suddenly parents had to come up with a bedtime story from their own imagination!
I think the prospect might make them rethink having a child - and that is a future that should never happen.
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