Understanding Your Kids and Use Of Social Media

    The Atlantic
    Published on Sep 10, 2018

Understanding Your Kids and Use Of Social Media

  Parents are scared of the excessive use of social media by their children. Unfortunately, there is no straightforward solution to resolve this problem. It seems apparent that social media has penetrated into our professional and personal lives to a significant extent and we are also experiencing its consequences on daily basis.

Perhaps we need to devise a strategy and to start seeing things from a different direction/angle. Since, we cannot stop technology, nor the use of social media, hence we should have a strategy to take the bull by its horns.

We have to devise certain rules in our homes to channelize the time and energy spent on social media. Some of these include:

• Plan a time table for the use of internet
• Spend more time together especially time of taking meals
• Put all devices on silent or switch off at night time
• Avoid using phones while driving, or taking time out with family
• Arrange and prefer one to one meetings with your children in evenings to discuss and share your whole day problems, successes, stories etc prefer listening more than speaking

Understanding your children better and helping them out to overcome common problems is to become their best friends, instead of being authoritative. Discuss and communicate openly and consult them too. Change their perspective towards life from avoiding personal relationships towards valuing personal lives of people around them.

HAPPY PARENTING! 👪