Don't let technology take your place

The panorama in which we live today is a very sad reality to look at. More than ever we find people who suffer from a lot of ailments like anxiety or ADHD and still don't ever seek help for their problems. That's because they find themselves so stimulated by the things that they see in the internet: Social Media, Videogames, Pornography; that they don't feel the need to do anything else, just procrastinating and entering into a vortex of madness. Well, this is happening to our generation, one who is still old enough to have lived a childhood without the external influence of these types of technologies. Then imagine what would happen to the next one, who's raised by a phone or an Ipad rather than their own parents.

What can we expect about this?

From our birth to the age of 6-7, we're basically a sponge for anything we see, wanting to imitate every behavior we are exposed to so we can adopt It as part of our personality, which forms Itself in Its most part from 0 to 4 years. If you give your children access to a place so vast and at the same time so uncontrolled as the Internet, they will be exposed not only to the good aspects of It, though the wildest and most deplorable too. We tend to see this too much: Kids from the age of 10-12 publishing suggestive content that only an adult would do in platforms such as Tik-Tok and boys that are barely in the age of reading watching adult content. This will surely affect the children to come, as they will find themselves with a really low attention span (Bordering on deficit), unhealthy sexual conduct and a higher degree of self absorption and narcissism, which will make Itself present in even forms of antisocial behavior just to get attention.

What to do about It?

Well, It is simple and at the same time hard. The only way to prevent your children from falling in this trap is to be active in their life and raise them in the proper way, through the presence of both their parents (I know It will be harder for a single parent, though It will surely make the difference between a healthy individual or someone who's crippled by media consumption) engaging with them in different activities and giving them healthy role models of what life should be like and how a capable adult should act.

I hope that this article could have put some light in a problematic that we're dealing with in this day, giving kids technology at such a young age, and Its problems, encouraging you to always be there for your kids and to always watch at what they're being influenced by, always giving them their fair share of autonomy and motivation from your part. Thank you for your support and good luck!