Most kids our age didn't grow up with social media or were that fixed with technology when we were in elementary, if anything all we had were flip phones and only had them to call our parents when we were ready to get picked up from school, or to text our parents to let them know where we were. The norm for us was socializing during recess to make new friends, like asking kids to play tag or hide and go seek. However, it's a totally different day and age in which kids that are in elementary now have all types of technology at their fingertips, such as smartphones, iPads, and other devices. This is both a good and a bad thing. Good in which kids can get in touch with distant relatives and can call their friends, or have a laugh when their friend sends them a funny video or picture. On the other hand this is also bad, because young kids can get exposed to things they shouldn't need to know at their age or can get caught up with online predators and not even know it. Kids in my opinion should only need to worry about being kids, they shouldn't know about the evils of our world such as rape, racism, etc. Although these topics are necessary to discuss so they can learn to avoid them or defend themselves, these topics should be introduced to them by their parents not the internet.
I believe parents have the right to monitor what their kids are viewing on the internet, and to see who they're talking to. Otherwise their kids can get involved in things they're not supposed to. As for teens I agree with Chris Bergman's view on if we take away technology from teens they're going to want to use it more. If you give your kids unlimited screen time most people get tired of staring at a screen all day and eventually put their phone down or turn off their TV. However, if you limit their screen time and they see their parents texting their friends or see their parents binging Netflix, they're going to want to do the exact same thing when they get the chance and not want to obey the rules. So if you give kids and teens a chance to monitor their internet use like adults they'll eventually develop a sort of system. -Emma Reyna
Yes, kids these days can be exposed to all sorts of bad things on the internet and it is all at their fingertips. Thus, I do agree with you on that parents should have a right to monitor them, it would help keep there innocence longer and would, as you say, also make only worry about being kids and nothing else. I also agree with you in that the parents should be the ones to talk to them about the evils of our world, because then the kid will know what to do if he or she comes across something like that in the real world.
ReplyDeleteI don't completely agree with what you're saying. I understand that parents want to be able to monitor our screens, but I think it's a bit absurd. They should be able to trust their kids, we're teenagers, we all have innocence, no matter how old we are. With parents monitoring us 24/7 wheres the trust? This would only cause us to hide things, more than we already do, doesn't it? I have a pretty open relationship with my parents and they trust me. Things don't always need to be monitored unless they suspect something otherwise they're just assuming the worst when they can just ask. Trust is key!
ReplyDeleteI agree that parents should monitor their kid's behavior on social media but I think that it should only be from time to time. I think that parents should ask their kids first if it's ok for them to know what they're doing because monitoring your kid's activity a lot is sort've controlling. Yes, parents should limit their child's time on devices but kinds a different and some wont like that and kids are also secretive so they hide a lot of things from their parents. Parents get suspicious too so if they check what their kids are doing and find out that it's something bad, then they'll take it away because it's what's best.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your statement. The more you take something away from a child, the more they'll want it. If a mother takes her son's phone away for punishment almost all of the time, he'll take advantage of the phone when he gets the chance to have it.
ReplyDeleteIt's almost as a reflex. People have the tendency of taking advantage of whatever opportunity they're faced with because they just want to see what they're missing out on and what it's like instead of controlling and limiting their use.
Technology is a huge part in everyone's life and I agree that there's a certain limit of what a child should witness because the world is a scary place and especially the internet. Though it is important for a parent to control what their child sees on their devices, it's also important they limit how much time their child consumes on their device to the point where the child doesn’t consider it a priority to always have their devices around or use them consistently. Above all, it's important for parents to talk to their child about what kind of things are out there such as racism, rape, etc. so their child knows what to expect. My parents have never checked what I do on my phone because they trust I won’t do anything absurd because they always talked to me about what kind of things I would see on social media and what I should avoid. That's why it's also essential for a parent to let their child have an account on Instagram or Snapchat or any other social media network when they think they're mature enough to have one.