The Job of a Parent

Hey readers!  So about a month or two ago, in my comp 2 class, we watched a movie called "Digital Nation".  In short, it is a video about how technology is slowly beginning to take over our lives and some of the affects, both positive and negative, that technology has on our lives.  It was a video that really got me thinking, especially one section in particular.

The scene is about video games and how children in South Korea are becoming obsessed with games and they are even making government funded camps to send the kids to to help stop the addiction.  I mean, really?!  A mother on there said her son rarely did anything except play the games and he didn't communicate with her very much and she didn't know what to do about it.  It makes me so mad that a parent reacts in a to something like that.  YOU ARE THE PARENT!  You see there is something your child is doing that is harmful to them then be a parent and stop it!  Don't count on other people to do your job as a parent and STOP IT!!  If my parents didn't want me to play a game, then you can bet I wouldn't have played it!

I think that is becoming one of the biggest problems with our society: parents aren't wanting to be parents and expect other people to do their jobs.  If you have a child, then you need to step up and be their parent.  If you see there is technology that is harming you child in a physical or social way, then YOU as a PARENT need to do something about it!  I am beginning to see this more and more each day whether it is in public or it is with people in my own family.  We wouldn't need to worry about the harmful effects technology has on children if parents took the time to teach their kids about using technology properly and in limited amounts instead of using tv or the internet to raise their kids.

Like I have said in previous posts, I am pretty excited to see where technology takes us.  This was not a rant against technology at all, but instead was more against the way that we as a whole are using technology (which my posts have mostly been focused on, I believe).  If we focused more on training ourselves to use technology properly, we wouldn't have to worry about the negative affects that come with overuse of technology.