When innocence is pulverised by technology!

"Piping down the valleys wild,

 Piping songs of pleasant glee,

 On a cloud I saw a child, 

 And he laughing said to me" 

 William Blake wrote this in his poem SONGS OF INNOCENCE

 Childhood is supposed to be the gleeful and innocent phase

 of life which is free from any bondage.But this poem was

 written couple of centuries back. Those times when

 children had a carefree childhood. When children 

were not bombarded with processed knowledge.

 When there was no access to information on

 internet. When rational thinking and inquisitiveness

 were satiated by self exploration and discovery. 

 Children used to be more in commune with the

 natural environment.

 In today's time children have lost touch with

 themselves.They are alwaysdependent on external

 sources of information to  compensate their need

 to enquiry. This massive web of information available

 over internet has scrapped today's children away from their

 childhood.Children as young as two years old

 are glued to their parents smartphones.

 Gone are the days when little children enjoyed playing

 in garden and parks; swings and see-saw; touching

 the morning dew with their tender skin or playing

 hide and seek with their friends. I remember when

 we were kids we had the best of childhood not in

 terms of grabbing more gadgets but grabbing more

 memories. Our parents gave us all the liberty to play

 in the garden unsupervised and we learned from

 our experiences. Although there were no mobile

 phones or tracking system to monitor us we were 

 SAFE. Yes we enjoyed the innocence of childhood

 attached to our feet. Today the technology has eroded

 kids out of their innocence and free-play. This wide

 web of data available at their finger tips have made

 them technology parasites and unexplorative. As a

 parent there is a marathon task of keeping a track

 of kids online activities and making them indulge

 in free play. Lack of physical activities brings with 

itself mental, physical and emotional abberations 

in children. They lack creativity and novility.

Technology should always be used minimal by children  

 under supervision or else it can create havoc. This is 

what we are witnessing today.The mind of a child 

 is like a blank page.

 Let them write their own story out of their conciousness.