The inside and outside world
We live in the techno age… Is this bad? Or good? Maybe for an adult is a little bad, because we need to take more attention to understand all the updates, new software, programs, apps and more…
For most of the kids, this is their normal life, they can’t imagine the world without technology, they know how to put a game in mom’s smarts phone, they know perfectly how to manage the touch screen in dad’s tablet, and of course they know how to turn on, off and change the channels in the TV… For them, the computers are a little more complicated because you need to press a lot of buttons to find something…
If the children don’t know how to read… It doesn’t matter, they know how move their fingers to open YouTube, Netflix, their favourite games, etc…
Ok, this is their life, we can’t shut our eyes before this truth…
Their reality is divided in two different worlds:
The outside world is the world with the people who lived around us, at home, at school, our family and friends, at the playground.
The inside world, is in the video games, social media, movies, news and more.
As parents, we need to know how to rise our children in this two worlds, teach them how to use a search engine, how to find good friends, how to take pictures and selfies, and how to manage their privacy, how to chat, how to make friends and take care of them, for example, is not enough to like their posts, or post a great emoji in their walls, they need to know how to be a real friend, and ask them more about their interests, they also need to know that if they receive a message, is important to answer it.
But at the same time they need to know how to manage the two realities and be good in this two worlds that they have…
For them the inside world is important, but also they must now how to move in the outside world, how to play in the playground, how to make friends in the outside life… how to have fun at the mall, the cinema, the bike, how o build a great house in Minecraft and with bricks!
For that reason, our children needs rules, because they don’t know how to manage all this two worlds that they have in their lives, maybe for us is easy, realize that we need to turn off the cellphone, and be kind with the people that are around us.
For them is not that easy, we need to teach them to be kind and attentive with the outside people and put the inside people in other part … and after, when they have inside time, they can attend the inside people…
Remember, the key to raise our children is always “good example”, if they see us, they understand better.