Life has continually evolved over time and so everything associated with it. Some of these evolution can be traced to technology and societal shifts and changing cultural norms. Parenting over the years has taken a reasonable drift from the older days pattern to what it is this modern day often referred to as Gen Z parenting. Parenting across the world transitioned from what it use to be, although the core principles of raising children remained the same.
The essence of parenting has always being to raise up well behaved children in the society with love, care desire. This goal has remained the same in both era of life. With evolving gender roles and more women taking up time consuming carriers, modern day parenting had become a thing of concern. In these post we will look at the comparison between children raised with the two methods to achieve their successes and possibly recommendations for a better parenting.
Comparing Children from Modern and Olden days Parenting
Lets compare modern day and olden days parenting in the occurrence or success of the following characters;
Addictions
With the modern days approach of much social media exposure children have addictions to battle which includes illicit adult content, social media. Unlike olden days parenting which strict policies are passed concerning technology. With the strict regulations placed it is unlikely to be addicted to technology related problems.
Respect
This modern day parenting tends to merge ideas from other cultures of the world where respect may not be important like in African cultures. Children of nowadays can comfortably work pass elders without greeting because it's not their direct parents. Meanwhile in the olden days parenting it is a big offense not to greet elders. Though respectful children are still present in today's world, but not like as it it use to be with olden days parenting method.
Withstanding Pressure
One can comfortably say that people that lived before the era of social media and the modern technology have more tendency to withstand pressure from different aspect of life. Children of nowadays are softer and bend to pressure easily. People before now thrived even in the mist of poverty, no good health facilities, lack of social amenities etc. Unlike people of this era they don't have access to good health facilities, when they are broke, little life challenges, some may take their life or fold to circumstances.
Cultural Heritage
These days you see grownups that no little or nothing about their culture, place of origin or tradition. But in the olden days one of the bragging rights use to be someone's understanding of the culture, their tradition or how things are being done in their place. This is exactly what he will pass to his generation and preserve the culture of the land.
In order words, children raised by the olden days parenting method have most of the cultures in them but that may no be said of the children raised in this modern day parenting era.
Friendships
In the olden days when values and principles were respected, friendships and relationships were seen for geniuity, sincerity and trust. Children knew their friends and respected each other's uniqueness and boundaries. Unlike some many friendships today, unhealthy competitions, lust and low moral standard are more common.
Marriages
Marriages of the olden days parenting method lasted more than what we see these days. This may be as a result of neglected moral values in the society today. During the olden days, divorce, infidelity, sl©ttery, domestic violence and other common non-moral stands were total frowned at and had no place in the society. This contribute to the success of olden days marriages.
Believe System
Children from olden days parenting method got their inspirations from experiences, instructions from their elders and superstitious believes that were passed to them from their fathers and father before them. This is not true in children of modern day parenting approach where every facts, theories or instructions are further passed through scientific examination and further proving. People now want to find out every truth, method or way of doing something by themselves and not just believe what they were told. This new believe system is the driving force to many recent discoveries in the world.
Conclusion
Following the evolution of parenting approaches, many negative and positive outcomes in children development are now seen. While modern day parenting tends to be more flexible, communicative and fostering individuality, olden days parenting method tends to be more of direct opposite of that. Also addictions and other common side effects of modern day parenting were not also common before now.
Striking a balance between traditional wisdom and modern day contemporary insights will be essential in raising all round good and effective children.