What impact has the Internet on our children

A few days ago became the accidental witness to a conversation between two women who complained that the Internet corrupts children and makes them unsuited to life. The conversation proceeded in line "in the days of our youth, the children were able, responsive, communicative and competent, but now it is not present, and one of the reasons - is the internet."

This is not the only opinion I have many times heard adults condemned the emergence of the Internet. But let us remember what life was like without the Internet really? I will describe a few episodes of his life, perhaps, they will seem familiar to you.

I grew up in a closed military city, from which it was difficult to leave, not to mention the fact, to enter into it. For this reason, relatives or just new people rarely appeared in our town. I was lucky: my parents took out my summer to his grandmother for 600 kilometers from home, and this trip turned into an adventure, I was waiting for a whole year. The rest of the kids did not know what the world looks like outside the city. And when I was returning from a trip, going the whole court to hear the story of my journey.

We heard something about Disneyland, but did not understand what it is actually and where exactly. We did not Google, that to find photos, video, or the possibility of someone to ask. We ourselves make up stories and tell them to each other. Disneyland, as well as many other confusing things for us for many years remained shrouded in mysteries and secrets.

We did not have the YouTube, and we watched cartoons, movies, several times in a row transmission; We read the same books that were passed from hand to hand; telling stories that wandered through word of mouth.

Our horizon was very limited. We were too similar. And it makes life boring. It was rare to hear something new, except that the fresh gossip yard.

And what happened to people who, by their tastes, preferences and way of thinking different from the rest? They became outcasts. They had no one to talk, nobody knew they feel trapped, and some of it was maddening. I remember at school we had a few cases of suicide among the "other" children.

My father was often away for several months. Once it was almost a year. At that time there was no Skype, and we talked on the phone once or twice a month. In fact, it was difficult to call a conversation, the connection was lousy and expensive, so all communication was limited to a few general questions about health and matters.

When we grew up a little, my best friend, I went to live in another city. For me it was a great loss. I remember how hard I had to live with it. More some time we have tried to keep in touch through letters, but soon it stopped. We found each other only many years later, when the social network.

Today, I use Google, to expand the horizons of their child. For example, yesterday, with the camera mounted at the zoo, we watched as a feed elephants in Africa. A few days ago we had an online tour of Niagara Falls. In YouTube we find cartoons about how things work. Ozon.ru on select books that we read before going to bed. And if you need to leave for a couple of days, we will deal with using Viber as much as we want.

And I understand that my child is in their four-years knows that the world is much more than I knew in my 10 years. So one of us is no longer adapted to life?

I do all this to the fact that we can not say that the internet - this universal evil. Yes, it may have a network and a negative impact on the child, but, as psychologists say, is a consequence of the problem, not the problem itself.

If your child spends all the time in the network, perhaps it lacks communication. Maybe problems with peers. Maybe parents do not pay enough attention. Or maybe just a child a lot of free time, and he does not know how to dispose of them, but then again, this omission parents.

I'm not a child psychologist to diagnose. If you see that your child spends a lot of time on the web, talk to him and try to understand the reason that makes him do it. And if everything is too difficult, refer to a competent specialist.

I just want to say that the Internet has opened to us a lot of opportunities for development and education of our children, and how we shall deal with these possibilities (and whether it will dispose of), this is a private matter parent.