As is often the case with technology the answer isn’t to ban it or lock it down when it comes to things minors shouldn’t be accessing. It’s up to parents. Evidence is now coming to light that human eyeballs are changing shape as kids stay inside during crucial eye development time and spend more hours in front of a screen than outdoors. It’s up to parents to be the enforcers of what content their children access and ensuring that they don’t become reliant on technology.
The problem is that the parents of tomorrow are a product of the culture of today. The culture of today encourages sexual liberty and ‘behaviour defiances’ such as unusual hair colors and clothes, besides being very open about a individual’s right for freedom of self expression without fear of retaliations. That by itself is certainly not a bad thing, but the matter is that it requires said individual to have a reasonable understanding of reflection over their behaviours in order to be able to understand if a certain behaviour is actually good for them or if the desire to act that way comes from repeated exposure to it, often in different forms.
Children today are living in that limbo between households that are not strict enough in order to not create unnecessary trauma and environments that assume everyone has the qualities mentioned above, and this has caused an impact on their emotional health.
(Keep in mind that this last part might be lacking perspective, given that this is only my observation on those around me. Feel free to share if your view is different)
As is often the case with technology the answer isn’t to ban it or lock it down when it comes to things minors shouldn’t be accessing. It’s up to parents. Evidence is now coming to light that human eyeballs are changing shape as kids stay inside during crucial eye development time and spend more hours in front of a screen than outdoors. It’s up to parents to be the enforcers of what content their children access and ensuring that they don’t become reliant on technology.
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The problem is that the parents of tomorrow are a product of the culture of today. The culture of today encourages sexual liberty and ‘behaviour defiances’ such as unusual hair colors and clothes, besides being very open about a individual’s right for freedom of self expression without fear of retaliations. That by itself is certainly not a bad thing, but the matter is that it requires said individual to have a reasonable understanding of reflection over their behaviours in order to be able to understand if a certain behaviour is actually good for them or if the desire to act that way comes from repeated exposure to it, often in different forms.
Children today are living in that limbo between households that are not strict enough in order to not create unnecessary trauma and environments that assume everyone has the qualities mentioned above, and this has caused an impact on their emotional health.
(Keep in mind that this last part might be lacking perspective, given that this is only my observation on those around me. Feel free to share if your view is different)
Oh my good next thing you know the youth will be clutches pearls DANCING!
One can only hope these youngsters stay away from those pesky video games!
They’ll be positively footloose, we can’t have that.