Our Children and the Digital World they’re going to live

Observations from my Professional Practice

In my researches and on the field observations I see video games replaced the Real World when we talk about exploring Life and the Environment.

But video games are only the last ring of a long chain started with TV.

When a child watches animes or plays something like Pokemon (or Dragonball, or others) they are just doing what we used to do in the past when we were walking in the woods or in an uninhabited house defeating dragons with a wooden sword.

I’m not a fan of being disconnected, for it’s quite impossible in the modern days.
Furthermore, our children are going to live a more and more connected Reality, so we need to help them to be ready for this.

And as I can see in my professional practice, kids stay less and less at home: they take their mobile devices outdoor and use them with their friends while they play soccer or chat in the park.

So I think we (Millennials) have lived a transitional phase when PCs were huge monoliths.

Now we have mobile devices (and soon wearable devices), geolocalized games (i.e.: Ingress), virtual reality.

So what do we have to get our children ready for?

Values
In my professional experience kids and pre-teens are in an “exploring phase”, so all for them is a discovery and a test, almost deprived from moral value (it’s negative: it’s just the way it is).
So in this phase it’s all game and fun, even things that may hurt.

It’s up to us to help them to discern, but before we need to know the World of our children.

Is it about control?
Our parents always told us not to trust strangers and to be aware when at parties, but they never came to our parties.
There is an age when Parents have to lower the direct control in change of more trust.

Is it valid on the Online too?
What do you think about it?

(from my comments on https://plus.google.com/+IvanferreroIt/posts/DhZxYbiPFDM )