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14 Years of Sharing God’s Love
Raising children has greatly changed in the past 50 years. One big change that has happened is the amount of information available to children now. Television, the internet, radio, the music children listen to, and even the books they read, all have increased the amount of data, ideas, and knowledge that children have put into their minds. Unfortunately, while children are getting more information, they are not getting the help to interpret the information.
Fifty years ago, parents could keep up with the volume in data out there. Today, parents struggle to just find out where some of the ideas that their children have came from. Both parents are working now and children are often left with daycare providers to help with interpretation. Ultimately, children are bombarded with a wealth of information that strangers or no one at all are helping
Not all information is bad. Much of it is good. But even the good information needs interpretation so that it has the positive effect it was intended to have. Children do not have the ability to interpret data. They just absorb it and take it as truth.
Good or bad, all of the ideas that children have told to them needs to be filtered through an adult so that the child knows how to properly deal with it. This filtering process takes time and dialogue with the child. It takes time to monitor what they watch or read. It takes time to listen to the music they want to listen to. It takes time to help them interpret what goes into their minds.
If you have concerns with what your child is saying or with your child’s behavior, take some time to find out what is going into their minds. Find out what they listen to, find out what they read, and find out who they talk to. It’s not too late to make a change. |
