Parents of tomorrow, children of day after tomorrow

Anusha Vasaikar
12 –  B

The other day, an interesting thought occured to me when I was watching TV. As usual the prosaic channels were showing some stuff about the extensive use of social media by youth. It’s true, today’s generation is glued to the screen. (I will use the word screen for any type of screen, mobile, TV etc.) But I wonder, what will happen when these kids grow up and have their own kids. These children have so exhaustively become addict to the JUNK of the social media that there are very few handful people who use it for good. Tomorrow’s generation is smart, tech-savvy, more intelligent etc. etc. Shouldn’t their intelligence be driven to the right track? These kids have lost control of their minds at a very early age. This is the age when you play, study, think and explore for yourselves. Sadly, today’s kids SEE WHAT THEY ARE SHOWN. Their thinking process develops in a manner the manufacturer of the game or producer of the channel wants. They knowingly or unknowing gradually lose the sense of decision-making and patience. The fast-moving objects on the screen have influenced their minds so profusely that they fail to admire the slowness of nature and the significance of patience. They are hooked to the screen to such an extent that of you take the screen away from their eyes for a moment, they go furiously mad. What intrigues me more is that sometimes parents themselves drive children to these kinds of stuff so that they may remain undisturbed for the moment. Little do they realize the unforeseen consequences of their drastic actions. Let’s think a generation ahead. These kids tomorrow will lead their kids to the same path. Slowly, the SCREEN will seep into our culture and will not take long to BECOME our culture. This problem looks trivial today. Children separated from parents, health issues, changing societal atmosphere. But just imagine it on a wider scale. A world where everywhere is busy with their screens, the mess at home is undone, office work is pending, the homework is left unattended. There is no communication… only the click… click… click of the phones among the graveyard silence! Now… I don’t mean you should completely eschew using mobiles (screens) but you should know your limits (make sure you don’t tend it to infinity!) I am a stalwart supporter of digitalisation. But YOU have to decide where and when to put the punctuation marks. We should be the one to control the digital world and not let the digital world control us. Everything in limits is fine.

37 thoughts on “Parents of tomorrow, children of day after tomorrow”

  1. You are surely correct but Now it’s the high time to get this issue as very concerned issue, Because now we are seeing different types of health problems faced by children even of 3-4.The Main initiative should be taken by the producers of games or apps so that anyone, wether it be a teenager or A child , shouldn’t be mislead of anything.And secondly parents are the molder of their child’s mind .Till a certain stage they can mold their mind, but when stage is over its very difficult to control them.parents can limit the usage of mobile of children.And if parents only use mobile over a limit, why won’t children use it. And there are even some cases where children question there parent that”If you use mobile for this much time,why can’t I use?”.So parents only can decide the future of their child , how they want He /She to be.So parents should take an initiative to control their (Own’s and children’s) usages. Because If this continues the world will be left as a Picture on screens.

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