SY: Debbie is my sister-in-law who recently became a stay-at-home mom to look after and teach her 2 years and 4 months old son, Ezra. She wrote this article in her blog and I've gotten her permission to re-post this in BW.
Here's what she has to say on why she quit her job.
Just take a stroll in a public area and see just how many kids, toddlers, worst still babies are given a smartphone or a tablet pc (aka iphone or ipad) unattended?
I cringe at the fact my baby is given the ipad.
I could not work at peace.
Let me tell you why.
1. Studies shows that children under the age of 5 are like sponge. They absorb everything. (That is why pre-school teachers give their ALL to instill the love of everything that is good…books, knowledge, numbers, arts, sports, CHARACTER, etc….while they are at these tender age)
2. Have you ever searched the YouTube for the most innocent thing and there came up “top search – video of some kind of sensual thing as good as PORNO for the little one. (I’m being as mild as I can)
3. Coming back to sponge – whatever they see goes into their eye gate. The eye gate, and the ear gate is the entrance to your mind, and when it touches it, it STICKS in there. That is why people tell you not to watch PORNO, because when you try to forget it, you’ll find that you can never wash it away from your mind.
I rushed home to search the history. I screened through and as surely as to my disdain…some of you may not even label it as porno but to me it’s rubbish for the eyes. It must have been accidentally clicked on. I AM NOT taking any more chances!
This is what I did.
1. Explained to the caretakers (who is also family) the benefits of ipad AND THEN the DANGERS of it. And then pleaded, for my child NOT to use the ipad unattended. In return, they tell me that recent news has been reported that little children’s eyesight has been worsen because of long hours on the ipad. They support me. (A BIG sigh!)
2. Quit my job. Why, I will elaborate more below.
A perverse and crooked generation….LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
To those born in my generation the 80′s. In school, perverseness was more like bad words and fighting . Porno, from books maybe. Majority of the kids were not EASILY exposed to porno accidentally or intentionally (except for those kids that were “unfortunately” under the day care of a “care-giver” with a secret addiction for sexual perverseness which the parents of course do not know about at face value or a relative of the care-giver who happens to drop by, and exposed them.). I was exposed to sensual behaviors on TV at kindy age and first exposed to porno when a friend offered me to read a book with very explicit details. It’s addictive I can tell you…or you can tell me too haha.
Our parents generation, how easy was it compared to ours to stumble upon porno accidentally or intentionally. I don’t know. But if ours was not that easy without internet, theirs should be harder without any TV.
BUT how EASY will it be for our children’s generation to chance upon porno or whatever bad stuff and how SOON?
How easy? 3 words. “A finger’s touch“.
How soon? 1 question. When did you first let your baby (and I said baby, not toddler, not pre-schooler but…baby) use a smartphone/tablet? From what I see in public areas, the babies are at least 1 year old and BELOW when they first touched the gadget!
So to summarize:-
“Our children’s generation is exposed to perverseness within their first year and in a fingers touch“
Be afraid, be very afraid.
If you are not afraid, I will be afraid for your children.
If you are afraid, what can you do as a parent? We can’t fight technology, but WE can SAVE our CHILDREN!
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