Parenting is a tricky role to be played. It involves different styles regarding the preferences of parents or guardians. The nature of the child to be raised also has a great influence on the style to be used.
In modern parenting, most parents or guardians have integrated technology as a modern way of parenting,such as use of television, mobile phones and child tablets to help them carry out their parents activities.
The main ways of using this this devices is by giving the children to watch contents majorly for entertainment purposes thus keeping them busy and less destructive to their parents daily activities.
However, as the parents aims at having enough time to carry out the personal daily activities, this results to limited parent-child contact. Hence less time spent in building child -parent bond.
Following this, the child gets addicted to contents he or she watches. This makes the child less interested in spending enough time with their parents, resulting to the distracted child -parent bond building.
As the child continues to watch daily, the more he or she gets attached to watching the contents, thus the lesser time spent with parents. This makes it difficult for the parent to learn about her child .
Therefore, the less the parents would have known their children the lesser strength of relationship between them. And as the habit continues , the relationship continue weakening.
In conclusion; despite of goodness of using technology, the parents should consider its side effect, especially the parent-child relationship.
By Newshub