How We Keep Our Child Away From Technology in This Toxic Generation

It’s almost inevitable to be sure that your child hasn’t started dealing with technology yet when you live in a generation like the one we live in today.

My son was born in December 2018, he is 2 years old but the way he expresses his abilities is so impressive that he doesn’t even seem like a child of only 2 years old. And his expectations make me fear that he will follow the same path I did, loving technology so much that today I live off of it.

I am one of those technology lovers who believe that the new generation should be very careful how we raise our children. We are living in a click-driven generation, and every important detail that should be taken care of is being lost because of advanced technology. Today it is rare to see a child not using a smartphone with internet access and already focused on modern technology. We already spend the whole day in an office, in a rush from work, and the children at daycare, when we get home we are all having fun with the clicks movement that social networks provide us and lead us to miss great moments with our children.

I am a freelancer and also work offshore. I spend a month away from home and a month at home. I have never spent a single day without talking to my son, so I keep him close, so I don’t feel the affection in material things that detach you from your family. When I am at home, my daily routine is to have fun with my wife and son together, we play all kinds of games, we forget about the phones to maintain mutual family fellowship without technology hindering us.

For me and my wife, our son can’t be messing with his phone, because we are never without internet at home, so we keep him away from technology to take care of his growth in an integral way. We make him do all the childish play possible, without getting involved in technology.

As our son has developed a personal creativity mechanism, during the day we have done our best to keep him focused on us and close to us more and more, to feel that our presence is much more than anything else that distracts him.

Are we destroying our son’s childhood?

Not at all; on the contrary, we are keeping him safe from the pressures of life and especially from childhood depression. So when he starts school, he will be careful of the boasts of his schoolmates and keeping his distance from things that may not help his mental growth.

As societies evolve, physical problems are being solved because there is technology to solve such problems. But as society evolves, psychological problems are becoming more and more explosive. And one of the big factors in these explosions is the way we live these days.

We are living in a phase where we love material things and use people who should be loved. We live on appearances through social networks.

If we have major psychological problems today, it is thanks to the dramatic growth in the misuse of social technology. If you analyze, you will notice that here on Medium, the stories that get the most readings, are stories that talk about mental health, emotional help, psychology, improving performance, and maintaining active health. This is because psychologists will be the professionals with the most work in the not too distant future. After all, trust is running out and this starts within the home.

We need family enlightenment to maintain active mental health and be successful in a relationship, in marriage, and with children.

Let’s keep our son away from technology so that he can grow up healthy and free from social media pressures that force him to be the person he is not.

If you want to lead your family to happiness, get away from technology for once and you will see that a part of your life will be happier.