Daddy talk

In the office bus, we have new topics coming up daily. Today's topic was - "how to bring up kids in a good way?" There are 4 young daddies in our bus and there were lots of ideas!
One basic idea was - We need to keep the creativity ON which is missing in today's kids. Kids tend to be passive all the time with TV/computer/video games/etc.

One dad told, "Four things have to be made as low priority for a kid to grow well. TV, computer, mobile phone and friends." We were talking in the age range of 5-18 till they reach college. If a person can stay away from the above 4 things for 2 days, then, he/she is really 'being himself/herself'. If TV and computer are blocked, younger gen will take a mobile and start SMSing with friends. It has become a trend to use more of SMS than talk face-to-face!

Our conversation ended with a note - "Even though we do our best, kids are always influenced by other kids at school."

Comments

Sumanth said…
"Four things have to be made as low priority for a kid to grow well. TV, computer, mobile phone and friends."

- Fourth one (Friends) is a little tricky. Children need to learn how to make friends. The way you have worded the sentence makes people think that children should not have friends or should not spend much time with them. But the point was that children should have some activity/interests outside a fixed friend's circle. Most important is to develop interest in some subject/activity.
6:50 AM, May 03, 2010
Shyam said…
@Sumanth,
My ideas was to keep kids away from SMS and online networking. I do appreciate a face-to-face interaction of friends.

Few days after I wrote this blog, I saw a related article in the newspaper - http://www.deccanherald.com/content/67332/technology-rewriting-nature-kids-friendship.html
5:28 AM, May 04, 2010
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