Information/Human Age: Bringing Family and Friends Closer Together.

Written by Jesse S. Somer


Have you ever felt likerepparttar distances from your loved ones and cherished connections are just too big? You then stop communicating as much, and soon your relationships are no longer what they used to be. In this day and age it needn’t turn out this way. The Internet is a medium that can be used for love and friendship as well as business and information. It’s not expensive to set up email and websites which gives onerepparttar 110728 means to write letters that are received instantly, send photographs digitally, and now with web cams you can even seerepparttar 110729 person live in front of you when having a conversation with voice communication.

Overseas mail can take two weeks to get to your Mother inrepparttar 110730 homeland and then another two weeks for a reply that may not get written right away. This means months for a simple conversation to take place. The telephone is useful, but it is often very pricey when compared to email and even a website. With a website you can put whole ‘albums’ of pictures onrepparttar 110731 Internet that can be accessed any time, anywhere. This means Gramps can watchrepparttar 110732 children grow week by week and have visual confirmation of allrepparttar 110733 main events in their lives.

Email is like passing notes back and forth in class, except your classroom covers our whole world. Information, cool web sites, and other tidbits can be sent as attachments, making photocopying obsolete, which saves paper, money andrepparttar 110734 time it used to take to copy text, which is now done with a button.

All this may sound a little technical but let me assure you if I can do it, anyone can. They don’t create this technology for superior, genius, elite humans, (Do they even exist?) but rather forrepparttar 110735 average person. It’s all structured very simply so it can become a mainstream part of our social system just asrepparttar 110736 mail service and telephone services have become in our present culture.

The UK's Top Teen Coach

Written by Sarah Newton


Pester Power – Are we raising ‘wanting machines’?

Ok so it’s coming up to Christmas and despite our every effort torepparttar darling teenagers in our lives, this time of year has turned into nothing more than a shop front.

I have to say, I was shoppingrepparttar 110727 other day with my 7-year-old and we saw a Bratz House. We looked at it and I was astonished at a price tag or £189. I could not believe it, for a plastic house! This was great as it allowed for us to have a conversation about money, however my heart went out as I know that many Parents will be pestered and pestered for that house and Parents all overrepparttar 110728 country will give in to make their children happy. The power of advertising!

What has happened, we appear to have created a group of Parents who cannot say no. Parents seem unwilling to set limits or drawrepparttar 110729 line anywhere. Is it that they feel more guilty as so many of them are working such long hours, is it that our kids have just got better at asking, or is it thatrepparttar 110730 advertising is just so good that we just cannot say no?

Whateverrepparttar 110731 reason, I have to say that I am concerned that we are raising a generation who are ‘wanting machines’, who respond torepparttar 110732 marketing aimed right at them. They are growing up with a distorted sense of entitlement and we riskrepparttar 110733 next generation becoming self-centred and self-absorbed and growing up into adults that simply do not care.

Andrepparttar 110734 figures are staggering.

According to market research, Families of 3-12 year olds now spend $53.8 Billion annually on entertainment, personal care items and reading material, $17.6 billion more that 1997.

And there is another worrying thought, does over-indulgence have a bad effect on school performance and relationships? Kids who get their own way most ofrepparttar 110735 time are very demanding and much less likely to be able to form long-lasting, sustainable relationships with people.

So what do we do?

1.Get clear what you want as a Parent

Most of us are so clear about trying to please our children and give them what they want that we forget about what we want. And I don’t mean material things, I mean what you want out of life – what do you want as a Parent, what is your purpose for being a Parent. Now it may be that your purpose is to give your children absolutely everything they want and if that isrepparttar 110736 case, you are on course. If however, like me, your purpose is to raise a responsible and independant young adult who is caring and compassionate, what you are doing may be against where you really want to be.

So next time they say, “Mum can I have……?” check in with what you want as a Parent and see if it fits.

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