Children are losing/lost social skills.

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I know I'm one of the parents who put full effort into maximum attention and recreation to ensure my children are always doing something new or different. They come along on digs, we regularly make crafts, puzzles, and many walks a week talking about the world, they love to be adventurous at the farm..etc they know there's a lot more to life than tv screens.
 
Totally agree , msrs bjay is a school teacher and has to deal with it everyday . Even see it myself in apprentices.
 
Its aweful, people cant be offline for any amount of time. At least half of the time they are liking memes, or loling something that isnt really funny, just because their 200 fake friends expect them to. Just a complete waste of time, vegies starring at screens. Cant even be offline when driving, working, or at uni/school.
 
My kids only use the tablet as a treat..if they have been pro active and productive through out the day then they can have some quiet time on it.
I wish i could do the same to thier mother.... its an addiction for her...she chooses the phone over her family duties... hence why im the house bitch. Hahahaha
 
rocketaroo said:
Its aweful, people cant be offline for any amount of time. At least half of the time they are liking memes, or loling something that isnt really funny, just because their 200 fake friends expect them to. Just a complete waste of time, vegies starring at screens. Cant even be offline when driving, working, or at uni/school.
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LMAO you guys cant see the hypocrisy?
 
I reckon the current generation should be called generation "scream", it's the only way they seem to communicate. When a kid would scream back in the 70's there was something wrong and everyone came running. Kids's scream constantly around here, that high pitched shrieking squeal. Don't know why they do it but the parents around here never tell them to stop it, apparently is the kids "xpressing themselves" one parent told me when I asked "if everything was ok" and if they could "please ask their kid to not scream".

Anyway when this generation are looking after us middle aged Aussies you know we are all in deep crap. :(

Not all kids are like this but the majority around here are like that. It is the parents fault as they are their guardians and the people the kids disrespect ummm I mean respect.

Oh yes disconnect from all this technology too, it's not good for you. No social skills I agree.

Actually on my travels I find country kids to be generally much better behaved and generally more well adjusted than North Shore Sydney kids.
 
LC76 said:
rocketaroo said:
Its aweful, people cant be offline for any amount of time. At least half of the time they are liking memes, or loling something that isnt really funny, just because their 200 fake friends expect them to. Just a complete waste of time, vegies starring at screens. Cant even be offline when driving, working, or at uni/school.
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LMAO you guys cant see the hypocrisy?
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yep lol
 
I think some of us might be showing our age. I spent my misplaced youth doing all of the above and some more riskier behaviors as well but I'm still here with all fingers and toes intact , mind you plenty of scars . Everyone I know comments on our kids good behavior but they only see the good side. The bad side is always screen orientated unfortunately.
 
All too often we dismiss technology, if you were truly fighting the system, well this place would sure be empty....
Children are fantastic imitators, generally they will follow the example set. Sure they will become a bit difficult, they all are at times but this is the moment to step in and be the adult.

What I'm getting at is we are all subservient slaves to our masters of restrictions, and we need to set an example to help the little ones evolve. Embracing technology and seeing how fun it can be sharing is just as valid as heading outdoors and joining in their fantastic world's outside as well. For example watching sport on TV and then engaging them in the backyard. Sharing gold rush and going for a dig. Taking photos and sitting together to edit them. Watching crusty and putting them on a bike. And turning off the screens (yours and theirs) for mindless hours of candy crush and endless hours of mine craft/video games.

We are here to lead the way, and that is done by example. If you make a little lesson and responsibility, some learning and wrap it up in a whole lot of fun they grow exponentially!
 
This is an age old problem that has just got worse as technology became more accessible. Our parents were worried about it when the black&white TV's came in in the 50's. We were not allowed to have a TV in the house until the youngest left primary school in 1968. Dad reckoned that it would inhibit our social skills and we would learn too much bad behavior.

Now I know he was wrong. All the other kids would run around the school playground playing Cowboys and Indians or whatever was the latest TV show. I had no idea what they were on about because we had no exposure to it at all. We missed out on a lot of educational stuff as well.

Most kids these days can operate a phone or tablet to download and process data by the time they get to school. When faced with a technology based problem they have developed natural skills that will carry them through to greater things when needed later on. Everything these days involves the use of electronic devices whether farming, mining, engineering or whatever. I believe these skills learned early in life are important.

The problem comes back to discipline at home first and then that being reinforced through school and the workforce. Our living standards have changed to the point where we're no longer happy to live within our means so most families will have parents spending a lot more time at work and a lot less time caring for the children. Making money to keep up a lavish lifestyle has become much more important that raising children in a caring and disciplined manner.

We were raised in a house that Mum and Dad built from old army huts that they demolished to get the materials. Everything was carted to the house site on a slide (sled) behind an old draft horse. Remains of those old horse drawn slides were still there the last time I walked up from the road to the old house.

Of course we can't build as basic as that these days but we could live in a lot less than we do. My parents raised seven kids in a three bedroom house and we were happy and we are as close a family as any still today.

We need technology in early learning but with basic discipline it could be controlled instead of becoming a major childcare tool.

(just my personal opinion)
 
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

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Kids today, what can you do? I know a couple that communicate via email even when they are in the same room together, they are 89 and 90 years old, I wish they would grow up. :)
 
Is it bad, today, when I was looking at some old actual photographs that I could hold in my hands, there was some unintelligible very small print on a page within the photo ,... I found myself forefinger and thumbing the photo to enlarge it to read the print ,... mind you, this is coming from the fella that thought the fax never went because the original was still in his hands. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
silver said:
Is it bad, today, when I was looking at some old actual photographs that I could hold in my hands, there was some unintelligible very small print on a page within the photo ,... I found myself forefinger and thumbing the photo to enlarge it to read the print ,... mind you, this is coming from the fella that thought the fax never went because the original was still in his hands. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Been there,done that at the doctors surgery waiting room with a magazine photo.Got a strange look from the guy beside me.
 

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