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New technologies in the family in 2020

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In the last years of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st century, we are witnessing unprecedented new technologies advances in the framework of the so-called «Digital Revolution», which means that many of our sons and daughters spend many hours in front of screens; television, video game monitor, mobile, computer …

From this starting point, we should not prohibit our children from using these advances, but we must be careful with them and control their use, know what our children are doing, achieve a rational use of television, the Internet, video games … being In these cases, the family is a direct supervisor of the contents of the programs, games, or websites that our children frequent … Next, we will make a few brief comments on the different technological means and some precautions that can be taken in this regard.

 Television :

Today television is a fully integrated element in homes and contributes to occupy the leisure time of the whole family. Television content can often be criticized, both in its programming and in the advertising it includes, and although we may be critical in its reception, our children are not so critical. In this sense, it is important that we know what our children are seeing, perhaps watch a series with them, talk about what is happening … With this, we intend to make them have their feet on the ground so that they know how to differentiate between the real and the fantastic, and the dangerous. and the accessible.

Therefore, it will be important that television occupies your space in a commonplace and not in children’s rooms. It should be borne in mind that the rooms must be intended for rest and study, with television being an element of distraction.

Videogames :

Currently, there are a large number of students who have a video game console in their homes with games that on many occasions we do not even know what they are about. As in the previous case, we have to protect our children from certain junk games that educate in values ​​different from those we want to transmit. When it comes to selecting games, let’s not let them decide for themselves.

We must favor a rational use of them. To achieve this, the following tips can be taken into account:

Choose a game that allows you to record the part of the game that has been played.

Choose games that allow more than one player to intervene, which favors playing collectively.

Avoid games that have an endless number of screens (they generate anxiety by not seeing the moment to reach the end).

Avoid games that encourage violence and destruction.

If possible, we should also encourage our children to use educational, simulation, sports, or adventure games that meet the above characteristics, can serve as a distraction, and at the same time train and develop their intelligence.

It should be noted here, that you will not only have to have some control over the type of game-used, but also the time spent on it. There are children who do not “get hooked” on these types of devices, but others find it very difficult to stop playing at any given time, half-leave a game, not play for a whole day … To avoid this type of ” addiction »to games, it will be useful for us to delimit a time in their use, that they cannot access it whenever they want and in an unlimited way, sometimes their use could be subject to the proper completion of tasks.

 Mobile :

As we pointed out before, the improvement of technologies has had a significant impact also on communications. Today many of our students have their own mobile to communicate with their friends. Control in this area seems clearer due to the expense that it can entail if its use is excessive, but it can also lead to important risks to take into account:

Excessively frequent contacts with almost unknown people, if your son or daughter gives the phone to people they only know for a day or even through contacts from the Internet.

Obsession with the mobile that sometimes makes them shut themselves up in their world of communications with equals from a virtual point of view.

Internet on the mobile: some of them have the option to connect from their own mobile to the network, this can lead to the same risks that I will pose in the case of the Internet but with fewer limitations when having access to it at any time and time. (note, keep in mind that although our son does not have an internet contract, there are mobiles that can be connected through the wi-fi connection in certain places.

Internet:

It is clear that the network offers innumerable advantages for knowledge and is a useful tool with easy accessibility, but misuse can generate family risks:

boys and girls who isolate themselves from the world in front of the computer, people who base their personal relationships on cyber contacts … in addition to the accessibility that all violent content, pornography also have … With all this, we should not be scared, but be prudent and take into account certain tips in its use:

Talk to our sons and daughters about what they do and find on the Internet.

I agree with them that they do not provide personal or family information through the network, calmly explaining the risks that these actions entail.

Be careful with mail and attachments from unknown people.

To be interested in the friendships of your sons and daughters online, especially in the chat systems, instant messaging (Messenger) and social networks (tuenti, Facebook …), we must know with whom our children are communicating and warn them of the lies that there may be in that sense in the network.

Set aside a generous time for your children to use the internet but for a specific time, it is appropriate that the computer, as in the case of television, be placed in a common area.

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