Soaring Beyond for Children in Out-of-Home Care

In the digital age, it is unlikely to prohibit children from using 3C i.e. computer/communication/consumer electronic products.  But, as it has been said "water can overturn a boat, and it can also carry a boat.", digital technology can make people addicted, and of course it can also bring substantial help to life.

The teachers in Agape Children's Home have recently noticed that children are becoming more and more depending on 3C products.

For example, homework learning and application, watching news, finding maps, connecting with friends, and online games, more and more children need the assistance of electronic products.

It's good to use tools well, but before you know it, electronic products are eroding children's thinking like a drug stimulant, making them more and more inseparable from it.

On this day, the teacher gathered the children and led them to reconsider their dependence on electronic products

Since when did you use google for searching knowledge?

Since when did you only communicate with friends through messages and texts?

In order to make children aware of their addiction to electronic products, the teacher changed this week's leisure time to arrange reading activities.

The children felt a little irritable and anxious when they knew they would only be in the stack of books for the next hour.

However, after arriving at the activity center, the children were looking for books that might be of interest to them in the huge sea of books.

They fell silent one by one, chewing the meaning of the words in their own positions, tasting the emotions of this chapter, and immersed in the world of the book.

In the end, many children were only reminded by their teachers that an hour had passed, and they shared with each other what they had just read that they found interesting. Compared with staring at the phone screen and sending messages, face-to-face communication was more valuable.

Looking back at the children's feelings when they are immersed in reading, it can be found that it is very important to cultivate hobbies other than mobile phones. Even if there is no mobile phone, as long as you develop good hobbies, it is no longer so painful to put down the mobile phone. The point is "what to do after putting down the phone." In real life, there are actually many fun things that you can do with your children, such as reading together, riding a bicycle, climbing, hiking, painting, and labor. We can guide children to use the mobile phone as a daily life tool with self-discipline.