Parenting in the Digital Age

Parenting is tough, the pay is horrible, and you basically get one shot at doing it right. And that was before some genius invented the smartphone. That little go-everywhere, always-connected device makes raising kids even more challenging.



While parenting is not for sissies, consider what it must be like to be a teen today. Your young brain is all wired and ready to test boundaries, connect with peers, and make poor decisions without a care for long-term consequences—and you’ve got that very same smartphone in your possession. It almost seems unfair. Any kid who can survive modern adolescence without suffering a digital mishap should win an Olympic medal.

Is The Massive Pressure of Constant Connectivity Getting To Our Kids?

A new study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology asserts that teen depression increased by more than 60% between 2009 and 2017. For children ages 12 to 13, depression rates increased by 47%. Researchers noted the same upward trend in suicides, attempted suicides, and serious psychological distress amongst youth too. While unable to clearly pinpoint the cause of this adolescent distress, in their summary the study’s authors call for “more research to understand the role of factors such as technology and digital media use.”

It’s easy to blame adolescent angst on technology. After all, the suddenness of technology's sheer ubiquity makes it the obvious culprit. But isn't it also possible that technology just amplifies all of the world’s other problems—like climate change, gun violence, the difficulty of getting into college, and more? Plus, technology provides youth a place to escape from these problems and to commiserate with peers. It’s complex and there’s still a lot we don’t know.

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Parenting has its significance and gets started the day we have opened our lives. Our parents did their best to protect us from all the possible dangers that we could face in our lives.So, parenting is been an old wine because since mankind has put his first step in terms of Adam and Eve parenting begins and it’s practicing till date by every parent all across the globe. A couple of decades ago parenting was the same it was running from the centuries. Parents in the post-tech era have to look after kids and teens outside the houses own their own. They have to look after both work and children at the same time. Parenting is been the crucial thing in parents life otherwise bullies, stalkers and sexual predators can trap your kids and teens in daily life. So, in old times it happens a lot and parents just don’t allow their kids and teens too much time outside the house.



However, since the technology has been advanced parents have to do parenting in multiple shapes. On the other hand, they have to stay updated all the time what kids and teens are doing and where they are present at the moment. Smartphone technology and its access to the children have put parents into deep trouble. Parents have to use the technology against the technology to apply digital parenting on kids and teens digital activities. Let’s discuss the basic difference between parenting and digital parenting.

Parents these days have to do the parenting for the real –life and as well as digital parenting in order to deal with their activities online. However, technology has made parenting and digital parenting easy with the use of mobile phone monitoring software that keeps parents update about the real –life and digital activities of children.

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As classrooms across the country embrace digital textbooks, one Sydney school has declared the e-book era over and returned to the old-fashioned hard copy version because it improves comprehension and reduces distraction.



For the past five years, Reddam House's primary and junior high school classes have used e-textbooks on iPads. But the consistent feedback from the students has been that they preferred pages to screens.

Teachers also found the iPads were distracting and did not contribute to students' technology skills, prompting the school to announce that students should no longer use digital textbooks, and must revert to hard-copy versions instead.

"We hadn't completely gone away from hard copy," said principal Dave Pitcairn. "We kept year 11 and 12 hard copy. When [students] got to year 11, and now had the comparison between digital and hard copy, they preferred the hard copy.

"The ease of navigation through the textbook was easier with the hard copy. I believe they learn better the more faculties they use, the more senses they use in research and reading and making notes."

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Ideas for creative and imaginative play are available all around us. Emotional, cognitive, and fine motor skills develop with the introduction to the simple things. Providing children with creative opportunities for play will allow them to develop these important skills as well as provide them with the opportunity to explore and learn about the world around them.

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During the play a child is developing many different functions that are foundational for brain development. Play helps to build the relations between neurons, which improve our memory and allow easier, steady connection between right and left brains.

Play allow us to get the confidence by doing unexpected things and also take intellectual property risks by sharing our new ideas with others. Play does not only allow person to come up with unique approaches, but also allow individuals to express themselves in a unique and creative way. Therefore, developing skills, such as being flexible, having a willingness to learn, solving the problems and create new designs are possible to achieve with the play.

Ability to dare to fail is also the outcome of a play. Different games can help person improve its spacial mapping skills, which can be used in maths, self-control, with games that requires time-limit and other skills such as better attention, focus etc.