I am sure that things have changed in the homes of Evansville's middle school students in the past few weeks. Some of those changes are probably wonderful, whereas some may cause tension in the family. I have a 9 year-old son who loves his technology. If my husband and I would let him, he would play his DS, while watching TV, all day long, I know he would be thrilled. There is just something a little different about the way our kids are "wired" these days. (Don't you remember your parents saying something like that about us?)
Every generation is different. There is a really good book out by Dr. Larry D. Rosen, Rewired. He specifically addresses many of the differences with what is now being referred to as the Net-Geners or the iGeners. He talks about reasons that tweens and teens hate school, how many of them step into time warps when they enter their school buildings. With the introduction of netbooks this year, I hope that we are making strides towards lessening the gap between the technology students love to use outside our building to that which is used inside it.
As a parent, I know that we often struggle with the best way to parent our children. This article, http://mashable.com/2011/09/14/parenting-tech-children/, provides 5 tips for parenting in the digital age. The site isn't very pretty. You must scroll down the page a bit to get to the article, but is definitely worth the read. It made me stop to think about what I am telling my son and what I am modeling to him. I will try to post more parenting tips as I find them. Have a great week!
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