Spoiled kids

Lulwa Bin Shuker
2 min readFeb 14, 2021

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Nowadays raising kids is not an easy task whether on the mother or the father. Some parents tend to raise their kids in a way that leads kids becoming spoiled. Parenting these times is a very hard task to do because of the emergence of mobile games and social media apps (like: Instagram, and Snapchat etc.). Kids these times are not like the type of kids we were. There is a huge gap between our generation and our kids’ generation. Which might make our communication with them more problematic difficult to solve.

This fosters kids to become spoiled and addicted to abundance of such mobile games and the different social media apps. The more kids spend their time indulged in them, the more their brains become dull, and slow-moving which have a great impact on their educational attainment and progression.

Now, many people are lost and they have absolutely no idea on how to lessen their kid’s exposure to these mobile devices. They tend to either let them spend as long as hours they want to or, try to prevent them from using such devices and apps by force.

Knowing that technology is a double-edged weapon meaning that you can use it either for good or bad. This entails that parents need to keep their eyes on their kids most of the time and try to participate with them to minimize the bad effects of such usage to avoid any danger that might arise and therefore affect the kids’ safety like for example; strangers who might hurt kids through using the internet and other mobile apps and social networking sites.

The kids unlimited exposure on mobile games that might include not only harmful intentions but also devastating purposes from other strangers.

So, if you spoil your kid, you are literally risking in their lives without knowing that. So, the goal is to lessen their exposure on them by providing other real and physical games as a substitute to bad apps and mobile games like: board games, outdoor activities, or even have a time cooking a recipe with your kids. By doing that gradually, you are solving the “spoiled kids” problem even though the virtual world is more common.

In short, if you wish to reduce your kid’s usage of mobile devices, you cannot do that by “only” removing them from their virtual environment, you have to provide them with other options in order to raise your kids in a way where their virtual activities are parallel with the realistic activities. In this way, the process of controlling your kids will be much easier than before. Also when you join your kids activities, they will trust you, be more honest to you, and they’ll engage with you in whatever things you want them engage with.

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