Social media can provide sources of information
in many different matters, one of which is parenting. Many parents refer to
information provided in social media to adopt right parenting methods. In the
past, parents had to seek most advice on parenting from other people, books, or
lectures, but these days, social media offer easier and quicker ways of getting
ideas and advice. You can simply search social media for any topic you are
interested in to get diverse and detailed information.
One thing to keep in mind in this process is
that information you get from social media is only a piece of information,
which may or may not suit you and your child. Actually, it is highly unlikely
for such information to offer effective and suitable parenting method for you. To
make matters worse, it may lead you to think that your child has some problems
when you don’t get the result you wanted by adopting some parenting methods you
found in social media. This happens especially when parents don’t have their
own healthy standards in parenting.
You will have healthy standards of
parenting when you accurately understand the operational mechanism of human
mind and psychological development of children. Then, you can build your own
parenting methods referring to all the information available in social media. Adopting
the available information and advice as it is without adjusting it to the
situation you and your child are in can be compared to trying to put on clothes
you can’t fit into. Every parent and every child are unique and every situation
is different. Adopting information and advice in social media without
considering individual differences will only cause or aggravate problems.
You must be the composer and the conductor who
has a clear standard on rearing your child. Of course, you can refer to
information available in social media, but you must customize them to suit you
and your child. You must never focus on addressing the visible individual problems
in parenting. You must always have a broad perspective with the right standards
and build your own parenting strategies.
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