Ah, America! Everything seems to be creating there, for the good and in the worst. And perhaps we are learning not to take for good and for new attitude, vice or fashion that in America is born, thrives, cracks and destroys itself, just when we start just to get used to it.
According to a recent report, 40% of two -year -old American children have a tablet, one in four one personal cell phone at eight years. But above all, a child is two and a half hours a day alone in front of the digital screen. To look at the cartoons, fairy tales, animal stories, it will be said. At all: it is stuck to TikTok’s video games or clips.
Since the kids go to kindergarten or school, at an early age, and they end the regular hours in the middle of the afternoon, Signica that their free time – excluding Dinner Shower Nanna – has lived in solitude, deprived of movement, relationships, real game, of creativity.
It means that small screens act as a babysitter, that the parents are not there, or are absent. In our world dominated by sociology and pushed psychology, enhanced by a superficial and anxious communication, the reaction to these evidence is the state of alarm, “The urgency to provide guidelines, policies and tools designed to stem the phenomenon”. But why never get agitated, if the awe of certain media is piloted with a pounding advertising? If Does marketing anticipate and urges not only desires, but does it create needs and addictions? If the law of the “so fan all” who conditions and forces even the most reluctant? Why are you getting agitated if our children are between shocking in users without even realizing it? Someone scampi from the “guidelines”: conferences, treated, tutorial. Chatter.
Attention also to policies, lens in the application and invasive of freedom: prohibition has never worked with large ones, let alone with the little ones. A further thrust if anything to transgression or depression.
It would be enough to spread the data, write them on the boards of schools, sports, parish, parish institutes: “Do not leave the children at the mercy of smartphones and tablets”. A little of social recruitment would be enough: “What a pity, that child not to get bored is to the tablet, invite him to be with us!”. The goodwill would be enough to distract children in other ancient and new ways. It is not impossible at all: take an adult with a ball or sitting to tell a story and the little ones will rush amazed and involved. Of course, it takes adults: dads and mothers with decent working hours, educational alliances with open spaces to practice them, the spur to a prepared, not occasional volunteering.
It would be enough to turn off smartphones and tablets to parents, convince them to buy books and bicycles. AND Stop it with that adage to which we are data: “It does not count the quantity of time with their own children, the quality counts”. Not true, The duration, the estate, the convinced and passionate participation also counts.
Our children perhaps will not become Elon Musk and it won’t be a great deal. Why Make America Great Again It will not work, with small maniacal clones and lonely. And by the way: we are copying it well, this America.
(Photo above: reuters)
