One of my office colleague and social n/w-ing friend (Dheeraj) put this as his FB status message :
"When I was a kid I didn't have a computer, cell phone, iPod, Nintendo, DSi, Xbox, PS3, Wifi or Wii. I played outside till evening.... I ate what my mom made. If I ever told my parents "no" or back answered, I got in TROUBLE! Life wasn't hard, it was BEAUTIFUL & I survived. I appreciate the way I was raised.... I love my parents and the childhood they gave me... ♥ :) "
And it made me think for a while.
- When I was a kid, there were no computers, no cell phones, no iPods, no Nintendo, no XBox, no PS3, no WiFi, no Wii, no Kinect, no iPad. So naturally I would not think about things that aren't present. Had it been present , I would have definitely wanted at least one of it and would have been a bad kid (frowning/crying/shouting/throwing tantrums) if my demands were not met :)
- There was the cricket bat and the entire kit, there was badminton, there was football, there was carrom, Ludo and other indoor games, there were comics, tintin.. that I was aware of. And I wanted one of each. And my parents did give me most of it , if not all. It made me happy. It made them happy as well.
- TV was new in the year around 82 (in my city atleast) and it was a wonderful box indeed. I wanted one. (As I grew up I realised the fact that the wonderful box was an idiot box in 'guise.)
The list is endless.
Times have changed. Times are changing. Kids are getting smarter. The current kids have more exposure to technology than us. And the current generation parents have more responsibility , to provide the right amount of exposure to the field activities, the offline activities and the online activity. And yes the parents are smarter too. That I guess is evolution :)
Adapting to the changing environment is important. Darwin was very right.
So maybe 15-20 years later (if FB still exists) , the current generation kid, who is exposed to the gadgets and the online world and who by that time would have grown up, would probably post something like this :
"When I was a kid I didn't have a computer, cell phone, iPod, Nintendo, DSi, Xbox, PS3, Wifi or Wii. I played outside till evening.... I ate what my mom made. If I ever told my parents "no" or back answered, I got in TROUBLE! Life wasn't hard, it was BEAUTIFUL & I survived. I appreciate the way I was raised.... I love my parents and the childhood they gave me... ♥ :) "
And it made me think for a while.
- When I was a kid, there were no computers, no cell phones, no iPods, no Nintendo, no XBox, no PS3, no WiFi, no Wii, no Kinect, no iPad. So naturally I would not think about things that aren't present. Had it been present , I would have definitely wanted at least one of it and would have been a bad kid (frowning/crying/shouting/throwing tantrums) if my demands were not met :)
- There was the cricket bat and the entire kit, there was badminton, there was football, there was carrom, Ludo and other indoor games, there were comics, tintin.. that I was aware of. And I wanted one of each. And my parents did give me most of it , if not all. It made me happy. It made them happy as well.
- TV was new in the year around 82 (in my city atleast) and it was a wonderful box indeed. I wanted one. (As I grew up I realised the fact that the wonderful box was an idiot box in 'guise.)
The list is endless.
Times have changed. Times are changing. Kids are getting smarter. The current kids have more exposure to technology than us. And the current generation parents have more responsibility , to provide the right amount of exposure to the field activities, the offline activities and the online activity. And yes the parents are smarter too. That I guess is evolution :)
Adapting to the changing environment is important. Darwin was very right.
So maybe 15-20 years later (if FB still exists) , the current generation kid, who is exposed to the gadgets and the online world and who by that time would have grown up, would probably post something like this :
"When I was a kid I DID have a computer, cell phone, iPod, Nintendo, DSi, Xbox, PS3, Wifi and Wii. I played outside as well
... I ate what my mom made..well most of the time :) . If I ever told my parents "no" or back answered, even I got in TROUBLE! Life wasn't hard, it was BEAUTIFUL & I survived. I appreciate the way I was raised.... I love my parents and the childhood they gave me... ♥ :) "
