Renunciating Facebook – temporarily.

Facebook or may be other networking sites have been eating in to the available time of young school kids. The usage is so addictive that once you open an account, the Facebook features spread a web around you and make your mind dance to its tunes. Like children of US and EU countries, Indian School kids have found the temptation to go back and back again to the portal too much to resist.

Psycho-analysts have been advising students to take sometime away from the Facebook. There are hordes of social networking sites available today. Facebook is quite popular amongst them because of rich features it provides. But let’s face it head-on. Are you or your child addicted to social networking sites ? Does he skip going out in the evening and rather prefers staying indoors logging on to Facebook, Orkut or just tweeting around. If your answer is in affirmative then your child is addicted to social networking. Help him or her get out of this by persuading and cajoling him to go out in the evenings, play some outdoor sports. This may not be easy as it sounds. You have to have lots of patience. Explain the negative sides of too much of social networking. And if your all these efforts are not bearing fruits then visit a child counselor.

Renunciating Facebook for some time, preferably a month is a good idea. Just convince your child, offer some incentive. Let him or her realize that there is a life beyond social networking sites. Go on to vacations. Social networking is not at all bad but usage of social networking sites have to be curtailed to enable normal growth of your child.  Once the renunciation period is over, your child can start using these portals again but with restrictive timings.

Your sincere efforts would help in normal and healthy growth of your child.

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