My view on impact of media on parenting.

My little story exploring the media usage impact.

First of all, I would like to underline that fact I was a child growing up during the time when media usage was only getting popular and I can say my parents mixed their own experience in parentage and information from mediated spheres they were interested in, like newspapers, TV shows, printed and online tools about bringing up children that is why media influenced on me as on child. Now, I am an adult and I can access how barely media changed my life during my younger ages. My parents are involved in completely different spheres because my mother is a - lawyer and my father is working in one of the biggest oil and gas producting company in Kazakhstan. My mother was had to quite her job after my birth and was fully involved in parenthood and decided to use every valuable allowance about parenting and looking back now I remember how our home library was full of magazines and books about parentage, in television channels packages every second program was about pediatric psychologists guidance or how various social media can negatively impact on young boys and girls. My parents were really interested in such programs and they were listening to the radio or watching TV while cooking the dinner or doing laundry and their big problem was in non-listening to me and trying to replace real communication with me by media. Then I grew up and became a teenager and started to create accounts and use my first social media where I saw not only positive, but negative affect of unsortable information on children while my parents were still busy by working and searching for the best ways of being a perfect parent. In conclusion, I was left alone with so many questions and with almost destructed mental health because I saw an awful pictures and videos about physical abuse, violence against women, sexual harassment, full of aggress content about gender, race and LGBTQ community discrimination.  Now, I am twenty years old young woman, who is able to sort the information coming from media and found my own pass how to struggle with negative impact. While I am studying abroad I have real needs in communicating with my family, who are living in my home country and social media helps me to feel the connection with them and I can say that it is the only one of the positive media influence on relationships in family.  The problem of negative impact on parenting is not only my example but is common in all families among my friends, that is why I have chosen this theme and want to show that in some cases media can harm parenthood and childhood. I don’t want to judge parents raising our generation or will ever bring up future generation, but I am sure that my story is not the only one and almost every child faced the problem of over usage of media by parents and lack of attention and care from them which is becoming a huge gap nowadays because parents are overwhelmed by their smartphones, social media, brand-new trends, editing and subscribing their “perfect” pictures of family. The mediating of parenting is one of the global problems of twenty first century and must to be solved as much, as possible or it can lead to huge loss like if relationships between parents and children will look like “chatting” with family members, who live in one house and loss of connection between close people.