Transitioning into a university environment involves a lot of change, including not having your parents around to help you with the small stuff. Calls home for mom or dad’s help are inevitable, but parents can prepare their kids before they get immersed in university life by teaching them these essential life skills.
Young people are immersed in technology in ways we and past generations could never have conceived. The Internet, cell phones, social media sites, and all manner of online tools are at our kids’ beck and call. Even kindergarten children these days are coming home with links to online learning sites, and most have at least one computer in the classroom.
Many young kids in elementary school have sweet-talked their parents into getting them cellphones and tablets. So no matter how diligently you may control and monitor your own child’s online behaviour, the fact is, it’s not possible to monitor them every second of every day. Digital technology is changing the way our kids think, learn, and interact with each other, …
