Parenting in a digital world!!!

Now, now. Digital life is bringing a new and unknown territory for parents. How are we going to keep our children safe with all these unknown and new aspects of digital life, our parents didn’t tell us about password privacy and love! Heck, when we were kids the internet was brand new, and smart phones was a thing of fantasy.

Today’s kids are growing in a whole different environment with access to so much information and connectivity to the worldwide world. In some way, they are way ahead of us because being online is part of their everyday life. And that is the thing… we had to learn the hard way about online safety and social life. We had to learn as we went. But kids today have their parents to teach them how to navigate this endless universe of digital information.

I think parenting in our time is the most difficult job ever. Every thing is changing quite fast without us being able to figure out or predict the dangers or effects of the new innovations on our children. They used to say parenting is a full time job, I think nowadays it is two full time jobs if not more. We should read and learn and ask and at the end it’s all a guess work.

I read an article the other day talking about teens sharing their passwords as a sign of love! I’m not worried about my children sharing their passwords, they are young now.  But now I’m thinking twice when I tell them they have to share their best toys with their friends. What is the balance, we don’t share everything in our adult lives, why our children should share everything.

Maybe we should start from a young age and teach them, “even if you love someone, you don’t share everything with him” I really don’t know the right way to deal with this at a young age, need to get an expert opinion.

What I know though, is that if we want our children to be safe in their teenage year we only have until then to give them a strong self esteem and strong sense of right and wrong. When they hit teenage years, they probably shot down and won’t listen to us  🙁

Or maybe they will… kids are smart. And sometimes we worry too much about their future. But in reality, if we teach them to be responsible and savvy about their interactions with others, they will know how to set boundaries in their relationships with others.