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The more advanced the world of technology today, the more activities in daily life that depend on technology. However, behind the benefits and convenience provided by technology, there are only negative things lurking users, especially if they are still underage. This is where the role of parents is needed to prevent negative things from happening.
It's not easy for parents to educate their teenage children. In the age that is a transition from children to adulthood, teenagers often have a mindset that can be said "do not want to be considered children but also can not be called an adult".
Facing teenagers, parents must be able to understand them thoroughly so that they can express and actualize themselves correctly.
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Getting to know children from an early age becomes something important in the process of educating children. Being close to him is one of the conditions for them to be open to us, to talk about what they have experienced and felt without having an awkward feeling for us as parents.
Because it is not uncommon for teenagers to keep their distance, especially their privacy about daily activities that they consider important, but actually have a big impact on their future. By early adolescence (13-16 years), children will experience conditions where life feels free, a high curiosity about new things, increased function of sexuality and emotional instability that is not stable.
Then, how to educate children in the digital age especially for ages 13-16 years?
- Communication
The first way to educate in the digital era is to maintain communication with children. Parents can explain to the child how important it is to use technology for the good and the goals you expect by allowing children to come into contact with technology.
- Working closely with the teacher
For parents who have less time to be able to communicate intensively with children, teachers at school become the solution. This means that parents can give authority to schools to be able to educate and direct their children with certain agreements. With the agreement between parents and the teacher, the school or teacher will be more free to regulate and control the behavior of the teenager.
- Monitor their use of smartphones, tablets and watching television.
The rise of television programs that do not educate a big challenge for parents. Coupled with easy access to cyberspace that provides great opportunities for teens to do positive things and it is no longer possible for teens who have sophisticated communication tools (smartphones) to not see adult content that should not be their consumption.
Even without having to search, offers about adult content have been scattered. This is an additional obligation for parents to always be able to provide supervision for their teenagers (including checking the use of social media), especially about what they watch and communicate with others in cyberspace.
- Working closely with the teacher
For parents who have less time to be able to communicate intensively with children, teachers at school become the solution. This means that parents can give authority to schools to be able to educate and direct their children with certain agreements. With the agreement between parents and the teacher, the school or teacher will be more free to regulate and control the behavior of the teenager.
- Monitoring the environment both in cyberspace and around it
As you know, there are a number of negative sites that can influence the development of the baby, especially pornographic sites that have run rampant in this digital world.
Put your computer or laptop in a place that you can monitor, don't leave your child in a closed place like in his own room. That way, you can watch over your child easily.
In addition, as parents, Mama and Papa need to master the types of gadgets given to children at home. This is useful when you do periodic checks. Check the contents of any history that has been opened by a mama if she regularly opens Google and Youtube.
Hopefully the discussion above you can understand and can be applied to yourself and the author. If there are mistakes, I'm sorry, because I'm just an ordinary writer who still has a lot to learn.
