These days, it seems like almost everyone is on the internet and there are a lot of conversations about digital life. I think the word digital has been thrown a lot, so I’m going to keep it simple and just use it as a synonym for digital. As with everything, the internet has its own special place in our lives and the way we interact with it.
I’m not sure when it became so common for everyone to refer to everyone else as “dads” but it seems to be true that I spend more time with my digital family than I did with my physical family. Now, I don’t know if that’s because I spend more time on the internet, or because I spend more time on the internet with my digital family than I did with my physical family.
The other thing that people might not realize is that digital family members really are more digital relatives than they are physical relatives. You can call them a digital family but if you are a parent to digital kids, then you are a digital parent. I mean, if you are a dad to kids that are digital, it is hard to imagine you aren’t also a dad to physical kids.
I should also mention that it can be really hard to be a parent to children that are not your own. I am still a parent to my kids and I am still the parent of digital kids that don’t live with me. That is a lot of responsibility and it isn’t always easy. I have to be a lot more thoughtful with my digital kids even though they are much more dependent on me for their needs and desires. It is an extra load on my shoulders to raise these kids.
You might not be a parent to your kids, but you probably are a parent to your children. There are so many of you that would like to be parents to your children, but there are so many more that would like to be parents to your kids.
There are so many more of you that would like to be parents to your kids, but there are so many more that would like to be parents to your kids. That’s because so many more of you are not parents.
It’s a tough thing. You might think that because you’re more parent than you are child, you have an easier time raising children than you do raising children. I disagree because there is no easy way to raise children. You can’t simply make a list of things that you want them to do. If you don’t know what they want to do, you haven’t got the skills to help them get themselves to it.
The problem is the way children are raised today is so different from how they were raised in the past. There are so many more choices for how to raise a child. For example, you can now video chat with your young child and text them from their phone. It is so easy to communicate with them through a simple text message. You get to see them without constantly being on the phone with them.
I’m not suggesting that the way we raise children in the future is the same as it was in my day, but the way we raise children in the present is not the same as it was in my day. I think the future is the future. I think the past is the past. I’m not sure we can ever be that far off from the past.
The future is the future. The past is the past. I think we can all agree on that.