Why parenting has become more tricky

Guiding and guarding a child in a house with three rooms is an easier task than to guide and guard a child in a house with thirteen rooms. The more rooms you add, the harder it is to have an overview, and the chance that the individuals spend their time on separate arenas rises.

The rise of digital media has created new arenas for learning, entertainment and social life. The question is no longer where the child physically is located and with whom is it together.
Modern media creates new rooms, new people and new patterns in terms of education, entertainment and social life.

Examples:
• A teenager could be safely in the home of its parents and still in a situation of risk related to posting private, exposing pictures on the Internet.
• A child can be safely on the school, receiving a threat on its mobile phone, creating fear.
• A child frequently visits friends from trusted families, watching films and playing games with extremely hard pornographic or violent content.

To become a parent of a child may be easy. To parent a child is hard work. Modern medias makes it more and more complex to parent a child, that’s why we need useful information and good tools - and that’s why media has to act responsible towards our children and co-play with us parents.