How Technology Affects Children’s Social Skills

How is it to be Socially Skilled?

Human beings, also known as social creatures are more inclined to communication and interaction with their surroundings. They have developed many ways to communicate their message, thoughts, feelings with others. With the evolution of man on this earth, he developed many ways to communicate with his surrounding; starting from just an ability to speak to now communication millions of miles away. The technology has turned this world into “Global Village” and man into “Social Animal”. The demand of being socially skilled at this hour of the time is like never before. It helps you develop your emotional and physical strength while being socially active.

What are Social Skills in Children?

Children are innocent creatures with delicate minds and thoughts. A child can easily catch on being socially active if you encourage them to open and sincere environment. Children have natural skills of development, learning, interacting, and enhance their social skills by time. There might be those who feel reluctant to get socially involved with other children in the play but that is not a big deal. As the child has natural instincts of not judging others. Their hearts are as pure as water and they don’t keep grudges while playing together. And by the time they improve their social skills which help them in their practical life. So, it is a basic necessity to train your children to be respectful in every manner, teach them how to behave in a gathering and interacting with their fellows. These social skills can either be positive or negative. Feeding positive skills to your child will have a healthy impact on their body and mind and they feel more confident when outside the home. While those that are not encouraged to open environments may shut their doors on yourself and it may diminish their confidence level too.

How Technology affects Social Skills of your Child?

Well, the advancement of technology has its impacts in both ways as everything in this world has its pros and cons. But to a greater extent, technology has reduced your child social skills. The online video games especially have replaced the outdoor activities which were a very healthy practice for your child. Outdoor activities and plays not only expose your child to other people but to the environment as well. They felt much energetic, creative and confident that way. But online games, play stations, Xbox etc. have reduced their circle to their rooms only. It seems parents are now way busy in their daily routine to pay attention to their kids. They rather prefer iPhones, iPads in their hands instead of bat and ball. Though online plays also have some health effects in boosting their minds but also have reduced their closeness with their family. It has deprived children of empathy and compassion to human relations and rather turned them into robots who are always busy in their play stations. They don’t learn how to behave in a gathering, interact with a new guest at home but busy in their own little world of characters. They aren’t responsible for this but we who have left them alone in the hands of technology. It won’t be wrong to say that this modernism has killed them socially, ethically and emotionally as well.