The task of modern parenting has become demanding task to do, is it lack of role models or parents should be actively involved in their kids’ lives? children have many things to distract or derail them from what they should prioritize during their stage of upbringing. Previous generations maintain traditional mode of parenting which seems to be working until dominance of social media and widespread of technological evolution, which makes it more difficult to keep up which parenting, you never know who your kids are chatting on social media, it further exposes them and make them vulnerable, countries are now racing to pass legislation that will protect children from harmful online contents, as rise in sextortion for children became tactics for fraudsters.
You can argue that previous generations lived modestly above this current generation, there are people who inspire in literature, politics, academics and across different walks of life, they appear to be role models not just how they have inspired in their chosen field of endeavour, but also how they have carried themselves and the way they represent themselves, which sum up the theory behind role models. But the influence has changed and evolved overtime, whether bad or good it depends on the significance it makes on the children or how they have interpreted it to be. That’s why they need to be guided painstakingly, this is because during that stage in their lives they are delicate, they can be easily swayed, technology has come with its benefits and possibly where it leaves big question mark.
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Children at their earliest stage start exploring social media, they began to see from that lenses how life move, from there their choices start to shape and evolve. From there different kinds of behaviours will be exhibiting, at that point parents have lost their influence on the children, they’re operating based on what they see on social media, glorifying violence, blaming others for their failures, lack of ethics and ready to bend the rules in all negative aspects. It further exposes their vulnerability, the likelihood of becoming drug abuser is almost certain. The clash of influence between role models and parents are wider, parents need to come in and lead since they form the closest connection with the children.
People have to be very intentional about having kids and intentional plan on how they will raise them, parenting need stable parents or guardians, if they are not in better place mentally, it will affect the children’s upbringing which compound number of woes of bad parenting. Young people are overly saturated with what they see online, sometimes the acclaimed role models fall of the ladder and completely off limit of proper ethics and culture, and you find these young people defending the actions of their role models, they lack or have not build that mental fortitude to disagree with their role models when they go off limit. Parents need to adopt approach how they help their children navigate through this phase in connection with teachers as they pay attention to students’ reactions to certain topics.
