Some simple indications to guide our children to the discoveries of new technologies
THE’Use of new technologies such as tablets and smartphones, and in general of social networks and internet, it must be regulated by those who deal with childhood Keeping in mind the results of the studies that have been made in this field in recent years. There are false convictions on this issue, and for this reason it is important to organic and accurate information like the one we published on UPPA’s number 1/2015.
We have already talked about the relationship between small children (0 to 6 years) e New technologies in this article. In this piece we focus on the age group between 6 and 12 years.
From 6 to 9 years: to discover the world
At this point it is necessary to start giving some simple and essential explanation on How to use video gamesTV, the digital In access to music, videos, photos. It is necessary to put precise rulesgive the child the tools to start protect yourself However, avoiding falling into excessive discussionism. No internet, no TV in the room. And the mobile phone? It is a technology developed for remote communication: taking into account that i Italian children are the most protected in Europewith a rate of autonomy in the school-house path only by 8%, the need to equip them with a mobile phone is incomplete: there is no specific necessity for this.
We try to know the interests and tastes of our children and to accompany them to discovery of creativity And of the potential that technology could offer: we teach them to take photos but also respect for one’s own and others’ image.
It is at this stage then that a correct approach to the school study: one of the important issues on the plate at this moment concerns the enormous amount of technological input that is breaking down on our children and young people. A few self -styled expert believes to resolve the question using the topic of multitasking which, rather than offering actual scientific feedback, rather appears to be a hypothesis created ad hoc.
From 9 to 12 years: the development of relational skills
Up to 9 years no internet. Why 9 years? This is the age when you stop believing in Santa Claus, in which children come out of magical thought, and their mental abilities begin to build in a more rational sense and elaborate. They can now gradually interact with the world also through the digital tools. In the pre-adolescent and adolescent age, a period of life begins in which the boys want to get away from the family to build something of their own, and need their space.
They will ask you the mobile phone, they will confront more with peers regarding the possibilities and technological tools available. From this point of view The mobile phone marks the transition to an age of greater autonomyin which the first requests begin: to eat pizza with friends, go from one side to the other without being accompanied, and the phone is what our company offers today to guarantee a minimum of protection. In this sense there is absolutely no need to have a smartphone.
They remain then Some rules: the time to devote to videoholes; Internet only at home; the PC in an area of the house accessible to anyone; The insertion of passwords and parental control filters. This is a phase in which a greater paternal intervention in the definition must take over and also, as the bargaining of educational rules. It is to the father who touches the task of managing the removal phase from the family areadiscovering the world and relationships with peers.
There is a lot of attention, a few useless and mortifying discussions, theIdentification of social rules involving the whole family: no cell phone at the table, respect for the interlocutor, attention to the use and sharing of images and videos on social media.
