How To Raise A Smart Kid?

Raising a child is one of the hardest task during human’s life. To leave a descendant after our existence on the Earth is the most important goal for most of the people, but how to raise a kid that will become a good person in the future? In days it is extremely hard to achieve that thinking. Thousands of bad factors surround us ever day and very often have influence on us as well as on our relatives. Writing “smart kid” I mean child that has big awareness and knowledge what is good and what is bad and ability to making good choices. Of course not every kid can become the genius, it depends on predispositions, however some skills may be learned. In this short article I would like to focus on those skills in terms of kids safeness.

Is it good to introduce IT to kids from very early years?

This is a very problematic question, because nowadays kids are not spending their free time like the kids from 90’s. Back in the days the most common way to spend some free time was playing sports outside, meeting with friends on the backyard. Now it is completely different. Backyard is being constantly replacing by the smartphones and meeting with friends is done online, through chats, mails and conversations. Even when the sporty infrastructure was developed in some places, the share of kids that do sports is decreasing year by year. It can have really dramatic consequences in the future. The society is going to be physically retarded with poor condition. That’s why parents have to seriously think about introducing the IT to the kids. The introduction has to be done in such a way that the kid will not totally resign doing any sports and participating in the real life. Unfortunately the computer or smartphone become one and only entertainment for the youngest and that blocks their physical development. To do not let it happen, parents should think about using the computers in the educational purposes at first. After that the kids will realize that it can be used in many ways. The second thing is to show as many as possible ways and purposes of using the computer. Parents should show kids what capabilities the computer brought. Learning by doing is the best way to teach the practical skills.

Be sure that the kid is safe

As far as computers and the Internet are concerned, the security of the users plays very important role. Especially the kids are exposed to hundreds of threats lurking in the web. Thinks like viruses and spyware may damage the computer devices, whereas brutal and sexist content can influence the kids mentality a lot. To keep kids safe in this environment, the most important, like I mentioned earlier, is education. Second thing that parents can do in order increase the level of security is to implement some software solutions that is able to set up a control over the whole computer’s activity. Such a program can be a parental control third-party software. This kind of computer application is able to traffic all moves that were made on the computer as well as block websites and emails that contain undesired content.