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Life as a digital parent means embracing technology for its positives – yet keeping your child safe as she/he enjoys its benefits. Share your digi-parenting story.
Computers, tablets, mobiles, and soon – wearable devices; technology follows us wherever we go. How can our children be left behind?
Kids love using the Internet and smartphones, whether it is to watch fun videos, help in school assignments or chat with a grandparent in another city. Yet, as they grow increasingly tech-savvy, there are also attendant dangers such as predators that lurk online, cyber-bullying and age inappropriate content.
This campaign supported by eKavach, India’s first digital parenting application, is all about sharing your digi-parenting story – how you handle the presence of technology in your child’s life and what you feel about it.
Include a note mentioning that this post is being written as part of the Women’s Web – eKavach ‘This Digi-Parenting Life!’ campaign with a link to the eKavach website
Leave a link to your blog post here in the comments section. That’s it!
This initiative generated a tremendous amount of interest on all our social media platforms, and we thank you for all the valuable suggestions and sharing of experiences. Since the number of blog posts itself was a little lesser than anticipated, the number of prizes is being modified a little bit, while keeping the spirit very much intact. Here they are:
The 3 winners to receive prize vouchers:
Ash Arun, Being A Digi-Parent
Apurva Abhyankar, Digi-Parenting, My Way
Nupur, When Virtual Becomes Real
We’re also selecting 3 early bird winners to receive a 1 year subscription from e-Kavach and they are Ash Arun, Prateek Gautam and Vinitha.
Congratulations and thank you all for your participation!
This initiative will be open from 27th October to 14th November 2014. Do make sure your post is submitted here in the comments before 14th November 10 PM IST.
The folks at eKavach are giving away some lovely prizes to get more people spreading the word about safe and smart digital parenting!
Child with a device image via Shutterstock
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My house-help asked excitedly, “I am going for wedding. Can you let me wear your red & black saree? To be honest I was stumped for a moment; I didn’t know what to say but I still said yes.
I lent a gorgeous saree to my house-help for a wedding in her family. Soon I stated getting questions if I would wear that saree again or if I was okay to be seen wearing the same saree my house-help was wearing?
We are all so conditioned to give our used clothes to our house-helps but are we okay to wear the clothes they were wearing?
A few days ago she came excitedly to me, “I am going for a family wedding. I want to wear your red & black saree, Ill wash and give it to you after the function. Please can you let me wear it?”
Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum (SISP) is an ode to all of the lost women, who could have been sports stars, singers, bankers, lawyers, doctors, just... happy, if they hadn't been enslaved in matrimony, and then forgotten all about.
One of the cool things about my mother was that she was an ace athlete and a champion sculler as a young woman in the 1950s and 60s. I only found out about this side of her a few years ago. I imagine her in a paavaadai dhaavani, taking on the mighty Kaveri river so many decades ago.
I recently watched a Tamil film anthology on SonyLiv that she would have liked to watch – Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum, (SISP) that has 3 stories of 3 different women – Saraswathi, Devaki, and Shivaranjini.
Like all the heroines in the anthology, my mother’s talents were sacrificed at the altar of matrimony. She pawned her gold medals and silver cups one by one to pay for expensive textbooks for us or a gift for a niece on her wedding, money for which she didn’t dare ask my father, because it was her niece… I remember how she caressed the cups and how her face hardened as she shoved them into her bag to take to the jewellers.
In the increasingly wired world we all live in, children's interaction with digital technology can become a concern for parents. Here is a start to managing it.
In the increasingly wired world we all live in, children’s interaction with digital technology can become a concern for parents. Here is a start to managing it.
As a parent, do you worry about the amount of time your child spends on the smartphone, tablet or computer? There’s no doubt that there are wonderful things to be learnt in this wired world; yet, how much of a good thing becomes too much? Plus, there are also worries over the dangers of such ubiquitous technology, including the free availability of material inappropriate for children and the news stories we hear of predators using the Internet to befriend and lure children.
Given that this topic is increasingly on parents’ minds, Women’s Web organised a Facebook chat last week, with Life Skills expert and Clinical Psychotherapist, Aparna Balasundaram.
These 7 Indian dads on Instagram are breaking all the stereotypes about parenting by investing completely in their child’s upbringing.
“Bache palna sirf maa ka kaam hai” (mother is the only person responsible to take care of the kids.) This is something that we have been hearing since a very long time. But there are Indian dads on instagramout there who are trying to break this stereotype.
Nowadays Indian dads want to be involved in every aspect of their child’s life. Just like the male Emperor penguin takes care of the kids in the mother’s absence, these “Penguin dads” in India are fulfilling their parental responsibilities by running errand that is by society meant to be done by a mother. They are helping their kids in completing homework, packing Tiffin’s, braiding hair and what not, and the clear representation of this is seen on social media in these Indian dads on instagram and facebook.