As Christian parents, how do we raise our children in the "digital age"?
I believe the internet and social media is taking away the traditional role of parenting.
There is a saying that it "takes a village to raise a child". But there is now a worldwide digital village out there that is raising our children instead of us, if we are not careful.
For example,
Before you have time to answer your child's question they already have found the answer on Google.
You instruct your child in a certain way but they disagree with you because of what Google says.
When they ask us a question do we tell them to look up Google or do we try to use our God given wisdom?
Did they first learn about sex or other matters from twitter or Facebook and not you?
We have to ask ourselves "Who is really raising our child?"
I believe our current generation is a generation of people raised by the internet, not by fathering and mothering.
I believe the negative impacts of this could be much worse than the issue of divorce, as it takes away from the God-given role of the parent (whether single parent or two-parent) as the primary educator and source of wisdom/knowledge in the home, to the detriment of the child.
How do we ensure that our child comes to us first with their problems and questions, instead of going to the internet?
I believe the internet and social media is taking away the traditional role of parenting.
There is a saying that it "takes a village to raise a child". But there is now a worldwide digital village out there that is raising our children instead of us, if we are not careful.
For example,
Before you have time to answer your child's question they already have found the answer on Google.
You instruct your child in a certain way but they disagree with you because of what Google says.
When they ask us a question do we tell them to look up Google or do we try to use our God given wisdom?
Did they first learn about sex or other matters from twitter or Facebook and not you?
We have to ask ourselves "Who is really raising our child?"
I believe our current generation is a generation of people raised by the internet, not by fathering and mothering.
I believe the negative impacts of this could be much worse than the issue of divorce, as it takes away from the God-given role of the parent (whether single parent or two-parent) as the primary educator and source of wisdom/knowledge in the home, to the detriment of the child.
How do we ensure that our child comes to us first with their problems and questions, instead of going to the internet?
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