Impact can media cause on parenting. Part 2.

Current Events II.

Mediation of parenting from view of a child.

Media evidently becoming an indispensable part of our life day by day. Mediating of parenting is one of the steps on the way to follow the pass of modernizing the parentage and childhood. From this view I need to show how media can sometimes impact negatively on children. Media usage is making life better of course, but children can treat everything too close because younger people have clear minds and supposed to react on problems dramatically and don’t have that ability to summarize all aspects and make distinct decisions. I asked my close friend to share her story with me. Her name is Miya, she is 18 years old and she has a story how media presence affected on her relationships with her mother in her childhood till teen ages.

Miya, 18 years old, Prague.

“Miya grew up in family with only one parent and her mother has big influence on her from her childhood. She was born in time when media was already normal stage of life and as she is the representator of generation, who are used to spent almost all day using different gadgets like smartphones, computers and tablets and face a lot of news, podcasts, video and audio materials just became her normal life part. As all parents her mother tried to control Miya’s media usage especially during Miya was in age between 12-17. But after some time it started to be not only controlling the social media but judgement of Miya’s interests, the way she is behaving on social platforms and the way she is clothing, doing make up and even talk. Her mother tried to protect daughter from unpleasant people in social media, abnormal information coming from trends in Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter, suicidal and sexual abuse content and all this fear came into arguments, than misunderstanding and loss of connection between parent and child in the end. In Mia’s life media played negative role in her younger life because parents are more likely to take all types and advice about parentage no matter the idea that every child is unique and needs own way to be supported by parents. Social media can replace real communication but what is more global - it can cause insoluble issues between the closest people. It is up to everyone but very important not to use media against to someone and it must be the pass to explore the world, understand everything around and help to communicate with people.” – says Miya in her story in order to show how media parenting can impact not the way it was expected first.