Nurturing Human Emotions into Children
It's a Digital world where gradually we are losing out on human touch, everything has started to become robotic and very soon we will be living in a complete robotic world, where there would be very minimal human interventions. In such a world that we are rapidly moving towards the bigger question is how do we teach Empathy to our kids and the future generations to come. How will those emotions trigger in them if they do not really have human interactions. How will they understand what others are feeling or going through if they do not understand those emotions well.
Nowadays parents substitute their time with gadgets to keep their children occupied, or for them to have their meals, or it would be a bargain to do their homework. So in a way we are more and more attracting children towards these gadgets, because it becomes like a prize for them to do a certain task. May be 100 years down the line a child will never know what it is like going for a play time to a park, probably they would be playing some virtual park games on ultra fancy gadgets. They may not know what it is like hanging out with friends, dancing, singing, because all of that may just be virtual stuff, where everyone will pay their attendance from their own space.
Well, to an extent these things are inevitable, because we are rapidly moving towards the digital world. But still never to lose hope, and safeguarding some of the Children interest, parents must take all efforts in today's time, to foster human connections into them as much as possible. And this can only happen when they give enough attention to their children in person and make them understand that human connections are very important for life to nurture.
Some simple tips that parents can adopt with their children, that will nurture their emotions and also help them stay grounded. Like Reading books with them together. The olden practices of bedtime story telling is one of the best one I can say, it builds a very strong connection between parents and the child. When my Son was small, every night for an hour just before going to sleep, we would spend time in bed doing story telling, and I would also encourage him to tell me stories, be it whatever then. That would give a leap of imagination to him, make him understand, what is joy, what is sorrow, happiness, sadness, worry. It would allow him to understand the different emotions of our human nature.
The other activity that I find very important to do with kids is playing with interactive toys. The different emotions, expressions and the sounds of these interactive toys will make them understand the different emotions. These type of toys do help in nurturing the child's brain and activating their human senses. One more that I find useful is the play pretend activity. As kids we have all played Teacher student games, mom and child games, those little kitchen set, or Doctor's set, teacher's set were very creative. It helped us with a lot of creativity. Doing these little play time with children on different characters of life will give them a chance to express and consider the feelings of the opposite person.
The most important of all is to push them out of the home in a natural environment for play time, so that they do understand what being in nature is like, They will understand the precious freedom of life that they have out in the nature.
It is important that we keep these Human Emotions going on and the Children do understand, what it is like to be compassionate or to be an empath, or to love and be loved back. These are some valuable gifts of our human life and we should not lose them in the Digital world.
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Really entire world lacking of humanity :) I hope we don't have empathy but we have sympathy only
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We need to be more human then machines to keep this life going as defined by nature.
I don't think we know what will happen in the future, but what is happening now is beyond our comprehension. When parents need children in old age, they leave their children alive. If there are, then the children do not have time to go to the parents and the value does not remain in the heart. When the same parents die, they carry the deceased on their shoulders and become the owner of their inheritance. Don't think that we are still on the right path but we are still lost. May Allah guide us all. Amen.
That's really a very sad state of life today. So many old people I see are struggling with their children who do not want to even meet them. There are many grown ups also who I know who are still dependent on their old parents. I wonder sometimes where do they get such hearts from. The more we disconnect from human emotions the more materialistic the world will become
You did exactly that
It is true that technology is becoming more and more rooted in our lives, but we have to have balance in terms of its use, and that balance we must transmit to children and that must begin at home; since otherwise the human degradation in the near future will exceed the limits.
We must teach our children to balance and that will only happen when we ourselves will follow that path, because what we will do, they will only follow
Sometimes I felt retro days was good for human, at that time we haven't addicted to much technology, we mingled with only people. Our Children are also happy because parents spent time with them not gadgets
So true Jyoti, our childhood times were so nice and peaceful and even clean. Nowadays the excess social media exposure to children is taking them off grounds.
Nothing can ever match personal communication through which that human feeling emerges, those who create true ties of friendship where we can perceive non-verbal language and determine its legitimacy. Thank you for such a good topic.
Personal connections build life, they bring joy and contentment.
I fully share your ideas. I believe that parents have a great responsibility with the education and upbringing of our children, instilling in them values such as love, solidarity, responsibility, compassion among others. Now that we are confined due to the pandemic, it is necessary to make the most of the time we spend with children, perhaps joining them in their own world and reinforcing those bonds from there by instilling these values in them. Let's not leave them so isolated, let's also learn from them so that they feel listened to, respected, safe and loved. Thanks for sharing. Have a happy day.
So well said. In these times, parents have to make that extra effort to get into their world and be a part of that, because they are already isolated and not giving them enough care and attention at home will further impact their minds. Thank you for sharing your valuable thoughts
It seems like a dead end, since we cannot turn our backs on technology. Sadly, some social networks are using many programs which through psychology affect both behavior and emotions in the real world, they know how to exploit the fragile part of human psychology. We have no choice but to educate our children and little by little make them see the reality regarding this.
That's the point, the new age technology is impacting our psyche and that's not at all healthy. If we keep our children more exposed to the real natural world they also will understand the importance of it when they grow up and be less addicted to technology
The internet, like any other tool, can be a double-edged sword. As an example we can take a knife, which depending on the hands and the education that the person has can kill or save lives. The bad thing is not in the technology, the point is in the education that we give our children.
Technology is not bad, but putting it to right use and balancing the use is important. Very well said
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