Mental abuse of your own child?
This isn't rocket science, but it is an uncomfortable look in the mirror.
Psychological abuse is a form of abuse, characterized by a person subjecting, or exposing, another person to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression.....(wiki)
As a parent, anything that exposes - or threatens to expose - or willingly allows- their child - to the feelings above, is guilty of child abuse.
Would a parent willingly do that to their child?
No is the glib, automatic, obvious response.
How many children (using the legal definition 16 as a general age), have smart phones? ( or hours on a computer, at night?)
How many children are being allowed to expose themselves to material online, (violence, and sexual material) because of this laziness, or cowardice of parents, to be parents ?
Day after day after day.
How many young brains are not developing in a healthy, natural way, because of this exposure?
Healthy brain development - up to the late teens, is vital for an healthy adult life.
A parent letting their child dictate terms of possession of a smart phone, (for whatever peer pressure reason) is not acting as a parent.
They are allowing mental abuse, for a quiet life. An easy life.
This is not being a parent.
Parents need to grow up – and quickly - before their children become mal-adjusted, anxious, depressed -ill adults – for the rest of their lives.
Because saying 'no' to a smart phone was just too difficult ? really ?
This can't cover all the ill's attacking our children in society.
It is a start.
It is taking responsibility for your child's welfare..
Someone told me that words don't hurt, only actions do!
I am glad you are writing that abuse can be psychological as well, not only physical.
We agree on something here!
Thanks for sharing.
The actions(inaction being an action) of permitting children access to this material is the abuse.
I think the overwhelming majority of abuse is psychological, not physical.
It good to agree !
Agree !!! Such a good point !!!
Allowing your child open access to the internet is scary these days. My girls have an iPad but there are restrictions on it so they can only view kid friendly content. It’s not hard to do.
One of my good friends told me her 8 year old found porn and asked what they were doing... every parents nightmare. Ugh!!!
Who determines if it's abuse or not? Who's job is it to raise the kid? The government? A government paid socialoligist using 'theory' developed by government paid studies?
How's that working out?
Parent's are supposed to be PARENTS...not 'best friends'.
I see parents 'giving in' to their kids over smart phones. It riles.
Best friends need to be liked. Parents are parents.
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Well that struck a nerve as I could not agree more strongly. We raised one child. My work to live and provide was centered within digital communications technology so all those gadgets from my work-world become available in our home-world and it evolved. Computers, connecting devices and the like. Children "learn what they live" so diligent oversight was needed to protect in my view. We did the right thing for her formative development and her welfare but not I am not patting my myself on the back. It would not be until she graduated from high school and on to college that she would receive her first mobile device and even then—I would not allow any data, just voice/telephony (she had a MacBook at school and internet…and I worried but trusted her, but still worried). She received her first iPhone 3gs years later. The reasoning always was deeply centered within and around what you wrote.
yup - it is so simple, but seems impossible for some people to implement...
Some choose not or bother, btw enjoyed reading your other posts and I hope you save your Napoleonic armies from the "bin" :)
lolol - thanks!
I might keep them, we will see - my revolutionary war armies, will be much nicer..
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