SMARTPHONE READINESS

It is another beautiful week and it’s my pleasure having you stop by once again! Today I’ll be responding to the hivelearners topic on SMARTPHONE AGE. Like most other topics chosen in the past weeks, this is one that I feel affects us and it’s very important that we talk about it and maybe someone can understand what to do better and what they should continue doing. Yesterday I read a post by Abenad when she shared her unpopular opinion about parenting and I agreed with her to a large extent. Most times a lot of persons become parents without even agreeing with the fact that what ever becomes of the child is their responsibility to own (this is a big problem).

Parenting is not a place to feel comfortable, relaxed and selfish. As a parent, that is your alt most priority to your child—a good training. You owe your child a good guild on how to grow into a good adult, how to handle different situations even when you are not there and how to make the best decisions. Yes, you might say that some children are already doomed to be strong hearted but trust me, you also played a major role in that too. You know how you go to a bookshop to get a new notebook that nothing is written on? That’s how it is with your child. Yes, when you start writing on that notebook there is every chance of you making mistakes even when your initial plan was to write as neatly as possible.

Due to understanding some things, you already learned of some ways that you can wright your wrongs by making use of a correction pen. Some people even go as far as tearing off that page so they will start all over again. Well, that’s almost how parenting works if you ask me. As a new page, we are always careful as parents not to make mistakes and over time, the more we make that mistake sometimes we give up on trying to get it right and we start finding a way to see our wrongs as right. Why all these stories?

Today’s topic is one that I believe goes a long way to explain how well parents are doing their jobs. Yes, we are in a digital age where almost everyone knows what a smartphone is and wants to get one for themselves, even our little children. Interestingly, nowadays children even have their own customized phones. It’s really hard to tell when a child should be allowed to make use of a smartphone because I know that every child is different and should be handled differently and that’s where the work lies as parents. If parents don’t know their children well enough, they will find it hard to know when these children are ready to be exposed to the digital world.

Mind you, as parents you can’t always protect your child from danger. One day you won’t be there to do that so it’s always best to teach these children how to make decisions on their own and you guide them while you can. It is not in our place to always make decisions as parents for your children. You give these children the opportunity to make some vital decisions and based on that, you can easily tell whether or not they are ready for some things. Getting a child a smartphone is not bad but if as a parent you know that child has some struggles with being self controlled and disciplined, then you might be up for a challenge.

I believe that there is time for everything and as a parent you should always know the right time to expose your children to certain things or else you might just end up ruining the child’s life. And like I said, every child is different and needs different ways of training. Just because others don’t give their children smartphones when they are not up to a certain age doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give to your child and vice versa. Like I said, it’s only a parent that can truly tell when a child is due to have and handle a smartphone.

Even adults do things that are not worthy of praise with their smartphones how much more children. Having that in mind, exposing children at a very early age might not be a bad thing as long as the parents is willing to teach the child everything they might likely learn outside. Always be the first person your child is learning things from because that’s one sure way to make them trust you. If they keep finding out things about life else where, they would rather go that way whenever they need advice or help with anything.

Smartphones are not the problem, the problem is what that child has been taught about how to see things.

Thanks for reading through. ❤️