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OUR NEW GENERATION OF CHILDREN
We have a new generation of children that are not interested in toys and bicycles.
They are not interested in playing in the mud or sand.
They are not interested in using a catapult or sling to hunt the birds or lizards.
They are not much into TVs despite its slimness and sleekness and getting less interested in Cartoons.
They are not fascinated by Swings and skateboarding.
They don’t have that stubborn spirit of playing football or basketball in the rain or pulling down unripe mangoes and guava from the trees.
These children are not interested in that game of hide and seek.
They don’t want to go to the museum or the art gallery.They think of the library as archaic.
They don’t discuss books.They discuss contents in Tik Tok,Instagram,Snapchat and others.
Their heroes and mentors are not the politicians,soldiers,Activists,religious leaders or businessmen.Their’s are Musicians,entertainers,Actors,Social media influencers,content creators and sports stars.
The World has a new breed of tech children.Every child wants a phone and a pad.The privilege kids have it and the kids from the less privileged home aspires for it.Once they are engrossed in that device,they cut themselves from the physical world and want to be left alone.
The new generation of Children are both obsessed and addicted to phones and related tech gadgets.Parents now struggle on a daily basis to free their children from the maddening obsession and charm of the phones and pads.
They are not into the phones for physics and mathematics,they are there for endless hours of video games,entertainment and silly things in the wild world of the social media.
Almost every home is having its share of experience and challenges with the tech generation children.They know about countries and places they have never visited.They know everything about people they have never met.They know more about what their parents never knew.They know all the apps and their uses in their parents phones.They know how to hide and manipulate their gadgets beyond the knowledge of their guardians.They are half human and half aliens from the ‘cyber space’.
The advent of the AI technology makes matters worse for the parents and teachers.
When there is a solution for every problem in a matter of seconds,the tech generation of Children are questioning why should they squeeze or stress their brains.
We are in a new World where technology has made life easier,but we have to live on a daily battle of trying to rescue our kids from it’s harmful sides.Where do we go from here?
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