Observing the formation of a child from an embryo to foetus and to a new born is simply amazing. It is even exhilarating to watch them develop from a child to an adult. Can you believe it? A child’s first day of discovery starts in the mother’s womb itself.
The mind of a child symbolizes a piece of white cloth signifying purity and innocence. Parents hold a heavy responsibility to paint colours of morality, attitude and character on it. Especially in this era, parental guidance is so crucial in developing a child healthy lifestyle. Nonetheless, materialistic parents who are busy chasing wealth and their careers have neglected their little ones in terms of their psychology and social development. This cause the child addicted to internet to keep them entertained with online games and websites with inappropriate content.
The early years are indeed a time of extremely rapid development, when children acquire motor skills, thinking abilities, social skills, capacities for feeling and regulating emotion, and other characteristics that will last a lifetime. Language development includes the development of vocabulary, grammar, and the pragmatics of language use. ( A-B-C ?)
The mind of a child symbolizes a piece of white cloth signifying purity and innocence. Parents hold a heavy responsibility to paint colours of morality, attitude and character on it. Especially in this era, parental guidance is so crucial in developing a child healthy lifestyle. Nonetheless, materialistic parents who are busy chasing wealth and their careers have neglected their little ones in terms of their psychology and social development. This cause the child addicted to internet to keep them entertained with online games and websites with inappropriate content.
The early years are indeed a time of extremely rapid development, when children acquire motor skills, thinking abilities, social skills, capacities for feeling and regulating emotion, and other characteristics that will last a lifetime. Language development includes the development of vocabulary, grammar, and the pragmatics of language use. ( A-B-C ?)
A child's language development is incredibly fast as a lightning. They can easily recall if a particular word is been repeatedly spoken. Profanity is a vulgar or irreverent speech or action. Ever wondered how they get to know profane statements or actions? Through, songs and movies published in video sharing websites commonly Youtube, Metacafe, Imeem and others. Profane music videos and movies give a child the wrong perception of life. A child is easily manipulated as they idolise adults and imitate their actions without even knowing the meaning of it. Online video sharing is making things a lot easier for kids to search. That's one of the reasons Youtube is being censored by the Brazilian authorities.
Moral development is development of moral values and behaviour. Moral values are beliefs about what is right and wrong while moral behaviour refers to actions consistent with these beliefs. Let me give you an example. Harry believed that taking drugs is wrong; therefore he does not associate himself with drugs. His action is actually his moral behaviour. The ability to think and reason enables moral judgment, social and emotional development leads to moral values and empathy, and personality development includes the growth of conscience.
The issue that cause a huge worrisome among parents is video games. Now, with the advent of widespread local area networking technologies and Internet based online capabilities, online gaming gains more popularity than video games. It has becoming more fascinating, realistic and fun. Many parents fear the online games played by their children may affect later actions. According to the findings of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), adolescents who play violent video games may exhibit emotional arousal and diminished control, focus and concentration.
Out of curiosity, I went to test out the game which my male friend is so into it. Here it is 13 Days of Hell. The player is supposed to shoot the lost souls before they slash your head with their blades. The next thing I knew was blood oozing out and splashing across on the monitor screen. I recalled back, I was actually murmuring "die die die" when I pointed the cursor to the lost souls. Just see how online games turn you in just split seconds. VIOLENT
13 Days of Hell - Picture for visualisation
In conclusion, we have seen how internet powering over the young minds from being lovable to something monstrous. Online censorship has been a ‘faithful assistant’ to parents in controlling their children. But that doesn’t give an excuse for parents to neglect their duties in guiding the little ones. What do you think ?
Sources
Rick Nauert, Psych Central official website, Violence Video Games Leave Impact [Online, HTML], Retrieved 20th January 2009.
URL:http://psychcentral.com/news/2006/11/29/violent-video-games-leave-impact/439.html
Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2008 official website, Developmental Psychology [Online, HTML] Retrieved 21st January 2009
URL:http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571074/Developmental_Psychology.html
WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc., Profanity [Online] Retrieved 21st January 2009
URL: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/profanity
URL:http://psychcentral.com/news/2006/11/29/violent-video-games-leave-impact/439.html
Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2008 official website, Developmental Psychology [Online, HTML] Retrieved 21st January 2009
URL:http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571074/Developmental_Psychology.html
WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc., Profanity [Online] Retrieved 21st January 2009
URL: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/profanity
