I would like to reassure all parents of adolescent children who in these hours have read the story of the mother of Lecco sentenced to 180 hours of social services for having removed the smartphone from her 15-year-old daughter. The sentence derives from the fact that following that decision a fight would have arisen and the daughter ended up in the emergency room. The “excess of corrective methods” detected by the judge refers to the blows, we hope, not to the decision to do without the web and social media for a while.
What to say to our children following the war on TikTok
by Riccardo Luna
That said, and given that the life of us parents is studded with inevitable errors in good faith, the question of the smartphone for children is one of the fundamental issues since they are very young. That is their door to the world, which we usually open too early and usually without taking the least precautions to limit abuse and risks; and when they become adolescents they know that door to the world better than we do and close it becomes almost impossible and above all useless.
Me and my son’s favorite influencers
by Riccardo Luna
When we were teenagers, the threat, in order to educate us, was to lock ourselves in the house or to take off our moped or pocket money. The smartphone ban has an even greater impact on how the lives of today’s kids are built. And we should try to look at it elsewhere: it is not the excess time spent with the smartphone that is the main problem of our adolescent children, if anything, it is the spy of a relationship that does not work. We did something wrong too, before. That relationship must be rebuilt, through dialogue, and removing the web and social networks is the easiest way, but not the ideal one.