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Be a Part of Your Child’s Life – Engage in Their Activities Using the Web
Parents play an important role in providing opportunities and encouragement to their child, contributing to the development of personality and character. However, divorce can create an emotional and physical distance between a parent and child, making parents feel disconnected from what the child does with free time. Even when one parent does not see their child regularly, the child still wants both parents to take an interest in the things that they like. Whether children find happiness in sports, performing arts, or clubs, research has shown that children spend an average of five hours per week participating in some kind organized activity. Since young people typically choose these activities, they are an ideal way for parents to learn about the child’s interests.
When divorce occurs, parents have to find new ways to communicate with one another about their child’s activities. Studies show that it is common for parents to experience some conflict, especially for the first two years following the divorce. Even when there is minimal conflict, ex-spouses may find it difficult to communicate effectively with one another. Remember, children still love both parents and want them to be present in their lives. Web-based technologies can be the medium through which a nonresidential parent remain involved in their child’s activities.
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Applications of the Web Technology
When the web technology was introduced just before the turn of the century, it’s only known applications were that of emailing and chatting. Compared to that, today the technology is successfully applied for performing many functions like social networking, blogging, information seeking and most important of all, e-commerce. The rapid evolution of this technology to have acquired the status of a potent global force over a period of a decade is definitely awe-inspiring if not astonishing and mind boggling.
Social networking is a facet of web technology which began with websites like Facebook and Orkut. Soon these websites had millions of members all over the world and served as platforms for re-uniting friends and family members alike. Much of the viral nature acquired by the internet is an aftermath of the spread of information through the word of mouth facilitated by these social networking sites.
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Abusing Technology Is There Any Way Out
There was a news story in the papers about a XIIth standard student being suspended from school for three months due to inappropriate comments on the social networking site Facebook.
Reportedly, this boy had got low marks in his mathematics paper and went on to post his answer sheet along with the female teacher’s photo on Facebook with rude and abusive comments. 15 other of his classmates chipped in with their comments. The school quite understandably went on to suspend for three months all 16 of the students for such a behaviour.
As we get more freedom to express ourselves and power better than ever to be heard with every innovating technology in the shape of blogging, social networking etc., there undoubtedly is a case for being more responsible with what we say and how we behave in our online or virtual existence as well. The above case is a perfect example of how technology can be misused to take out personal frustrations, venting out loud and probably satisfying our anger which otherwise we never could. This gives anyone and everyone a chance to be The King! But only in the wrong perspective.
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