Kids and their use of iPad/iPhone/TV

[Night Owl]

In my opinion the most important thing to think about when it comes to children is to make sure you raise them with positive reinforcement. The more control you input into the children the more the children will grow controlling themselves and feeling controlled by their environnement. It is more useful for an entity to experience and learn from life by themselves. Controlling the amount of experience and catalyst for your child will not do anything positive. Those gadgets are part of the new generations. I think the best you can do is teach them what are the effects of technology and then set them free so they understand themselves what they have to understand about it. It is not useful to protect them too much either because it controls their learning process. I can totally understand the feeling but you must consider if what you want for your children is safety or happiness. Even with good intentions if there is too much control they will end up blaming you for their unhappiness. I don't think rules are really a healthy thing to do at all in any case with children. It is best for them to understand things by themselves than forcing them. The society is an excellent exemple that rules and prisons end up creating criminals and prisonners. The native americans didn't have any of that and didn't need them because they didn't have to live in the fear of the law. Like many things including relations, drugs, education, health, behavior, smoking, friends it is always best to let them experience and have their own conclusions. If you teach them well they will grow well. That is the role of a parent, to teach how to live freely and happily. You will also have a better relation with them if they can feel free with you.