How best to teach your children how to use technology? How do you do it with your children?
I'm a 17 year old boy and I grew up almost completely without modern technology. Laptop, mobile phone, Playstation, X-Box, etc. We did not have everything.
The advantage:
I grew up like in the good old days. I spent the whole day outside in the woods, on meadows, in streams, etc. I was always the tiniest in the class in summer because I was ALWAYS outside. I knew all the plants and animals by heart because I saw them every day. I never needed to go to a gym because I was on the move all day anyway. I sat down on trees and sang for joy.
And if I wanted to read something, I grabbed a book and sat down on a bale of straw and read. I could never imagine anything worse than sitting inside and gambling all day long. Even at the thought I was bored. So I really had a childhood like in the good old days.
The disadvantage:
I almost do not know anything about modern technology. Until I got my first smartphone at 16 (!) I did not really have any connection with others. Facebook, Whatsapp; I did not have all that. If someone wanted something from me, he had to come by himself. For many peers, of course, I was a laughingstock. Everything the others were interested in, YouTube, Minecraft; I did not know all that. I could not have a say anywhere.
When I wished for a smartphone because of the peer pressure (I never would have wanted one by myself), my classmates first had to explain to me how everything works. I was always the hillbilly for you, who fits in the barn better than at school.
And professionally, those who have spent a lot of time with technology in their childhood will have an easier time. A friend of mine has never picked flowers and has never climbed trees, he used to just play. But he knows a lot about computers and can therefore make a good career.
I'm glad if I can even use Word or PowerPoint. However, many professions today require extensive computer skills. I'm just starting to learn all this at the age of 18.
So my question: how do you do it with your children? How can you find the right measure for children growing up in nature and still be able to handle technology?
First of all, the older generation has the same problem (had). I learned from our son how to use modern technology when he got his first PC at the age of fifteen. Adolescents deal with technology much more naturally, he had already heard and heard a lot from friends, we parents could not show it all to him. The other way round he showed me how to use WORD when my typewriter at that time gave up the ghost… Without this "push" I would not be sitting here now.
(We were at video and music cassettes and the first telespielen, and then, when he was 14, the C64) …
Our daughter (born 1985) has never been interested, she can use a laptop to buy something on the internet, or to put pictures in her profile, nothing more.
Children, as I said, are totally at ease with technology and learn how to interact on their own. My girlfriend's 5-year-old grandchild gets along better with her smartphone and tablet than she does. Because he is allowed to watch videos from his own playlist from time to time.
I have the attitude that I let my sons try everything, and encourage them to find their own path that suits you. My parents wanted to force everything on me, and that never worked properly. Man should always be allowed to seek his own individual path to become happy.
Who says that you should have learned everything as a child? You can also build on experience gained and transfer it to another field. Agriculture is immensely valuable to humanity,
Without technology, it simply can't be done today, everyone can learn something new.
"Gambling" is not a true knowledge of technical contexts, the game industry is always new, more realistic, how these whole games work at all, only very few.
My son has a master in computer science and totz all he grew up very nature related. His living room was the garden with its playground equipment, the brook in the forest and the paths and meadows. He had no cell phone during school hours and was seen only in the family together and the pads. Valuable children's programs.
Nevertheless, he attended high school, came along well, got the opportunity to work at home on the computer. Quickly programmed his own memory games and other things, he became a real freak in relationship computer.
From his pocket money, he bought no sweets, alcohol or cigarettes, but computer magazines, which he read from the first class. I can't explain where he got this interest in this technique.
I'm lost. Of course you are helpful 👍
Thanks for the star.
