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The bane of information age: Children are its worst victims

Gurdeep Singh
Nov 2010

Is the new information order that is emerging on the horizon to the advantage or disadvantage of India's upcoming generation? What kind of entrepreneurs or professions will the children of today make when they are matured enough to take up a job or run their own business?

The advantages of the Information age are all too well known— abundant knowledge, everything on a computer screen, saving of time, and money. The list is indeed endless. Yet it has its pitfalls!

Child psychologists and educationists are concerned at the deterioration in traditional values and erosion of India's cultural appreciation among children as a consequence of Indian and global visual media and other curses of the age of Internet with the younger lot imbibing a culture of violence.

According to them, there are websites on the Internet, which display pornographic and violent computer games to which children fall a prey. These websites preach a culture of violence, display pornographic material and inculcate habits, which come as a rude shock to parents and teachers alike.

For instance, a channel programme shown on sports channels relating to free style commercialised wrestling breeds a culture of violence, they opine.

Voilence Affects the Behavioural Pattern

Excessive exposure to violence has a bad effect on a developing brain and affects the behavioural pattern of the child.

Vivek Malik, a senior teacher of G. D. Salwan School in Central Delhi, says over exposure to discotheques, clubs and bars in the city is resulting in a mind set change where children show lesser and lesser interest in studies and are more interested in fun and frolic, which is not desirable.

I he culture is fast catching up among Indian children and youth, shocking parents, most of whom belong to the middle class and are well educated and have a professional background.

"No parent or a school would like children to ignore its studies and adopt habits, which are unbecoming and bring a bad name to their institutions of learning or families", he says.

Malik says while the West has given great values to the world and a stem of schooling that is admirable, but some of the dirty culture linked to it needs to be avoided.

Bimla Kaul, a teacher of Mount Saint Mary School, says students gels involved in frequent group lights and adopt spending habits, which come about as a result of peer group pressure.

Losing Affordability

This becomes a problem for middle class parents whose salaries can not match the lifestyle of the rich. There are well known schools where a predominant number of children are from well off families, some of whom come from the richest families in the city, Kaul says.

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1 Comments >>

Richu Madan

08 Dec 2010 (05:48:06)

Good article indeed. Thanks

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