Being a Parent and "Parenting" In the Age of Now

Two weeks ago, I along with the teachers in the school held a raid all the gadgets that are owned by students ranging from flash, laptop, neetbook, ipad, ipod, tablet and HP relating to pornography and violent content contained in the gadget brought by students. And the results actually found some students belonging gadgets are pornographic and violent games and eventually the school should provide follow-up related to the incident. During the raid, found in almost all gadgets child / student areas passwords so in this case the parents will surely find it difficult to keep an eye on the content contained in the gadget children. Especially today with the rapid development of advanced technological gadgets, parents are in fact not a "digital native" find it difficult to follow the sophistication gadget. The children of today who can be categorized as "digital native" and respond quickly learned of sophistication gadget. In addition to examining the content that has been stored in the gadget students, We are the teachers and of course with the help of ICT teachers also check view the history of internet websites that have been opened by the students also program applications in gadget students.
Whereas in school rules clearly that there is no use of gadgets for ongoing learning activities and the use of laptops and the like are only used to support teaching and learning activities. And finally learned of the incident the school had a policy relating to the gadget so that students can take advantage of the gadgets and technologies appropriate.
Then different story is much the same at home with my son who was sitting in class 2 SD. I as a parent, is now very concerned about the development of children today. For me the development of technology, the gadget itself is neutral. The sophistication of the technology created for human prosperity and ease. And the problem is the man who does not use appropriate technology. Aberrations always occur.
Home as my parents gave all my twin sons play the game PS, I'm pretty selective with VCD games played by my twin sons lest the children play "stupid game", a game that only provide entertainment stimulus alone so addicted (addicted) not give the feel of educative. Then also provide so many rules and contractual agreements for the use of PS. It also rupakan tricked by my twin sons. Sometimes when I'm not home they try to secretly play PS games online for rental or outside the home. And I never even dared to lie ketemukan they are supposed to use pocket money to buy a snack but instead used to play PS or game rental online with reasons of boredom denganVCD PS that has been owned. Of course in this case I should be more careful, careful with the development of my son either at home or outside the home. Defenses me as a parent is to continue instilling the values ​​of life (living values) to the children to keep them well maintained behavioral, cognitive, affective and psychomotor from improper use of the gadget.
And one day I would be happy to see my twin sons play gobak Sodor (traditional games) with his group of peers in a home environment. Details of the game that many kids learn, especially learning to live together.
I imagine, the time of the father-mother-grandma-grandma and my childhood days when we did not have the first game of the gadget. Games that we do is all the traditional game, played in the time / river looking for frogs, dragonflies capture the garden, looking for butterflies. But apparently today's world, children and my students are now hard to find a game that I think the media is much more "educational" than the game in today's gadgets. We used to learn and play from and directly with nature. Environmental degradation due to human inability maintain the balance of nature has taken it all. Anyone who has been a victim?
And true era will not move backwards as well as "No culture is timeless ..." (Serena Nanda and Richard L. Warms, 2007) as revealed by Nanda and Warms anthropologists in their work "Cultural Anthropology" that all have histories of culture change and no one belongs to a culture that is stuck in time .. "In a culture theory that changes in both society and the culture surrounding it is a necessity. Similarly, we have seen how changes in social, economic, political, cultural and environment have occurred, one of which changes in technology, gadgets, we and our children. As parents and the parenting that we can do is let's keep our kids