JAKARTA - The couple Atta Halilintar and Aurel Hermansyah shared their experiences in educating Ameena and Azura in the digital era. They admitted to being overwhelmed by the critical attitude of today's children towards the use of gadgets.
"One time I forbade, 'Kak don't play your phone'. 'Mama Papa also play your phone. Why do Mama Papa play your phone?' It was returned like that," said Aurel about Ameena's behavior as quoted by VOI from Ivan Gunawan's YouTube, Wednesday, March 11.
Facing the critical question of her child, Aurel often runs out of words to give a reasonable explanation.
"Mama works, Nak, Mama's work phone is here. 'Yeah, I'm working too. I'm looking at it again'," Aurel imitated, making Ivan Gunawan laugh.
To get around it, Atta and Aurel finally gave toys that resembled real electronic devices for adults.
"Finally, I know there is no way we can buy a toy laptop and toy handphones," explained Aurel.
Atta himself has very limited the use of technology at home, especially for social media affairs for minors.
"Especially in the last one or two years, I really can't hold him to social media," said Atta Halilintar.
Although Ameena has an Instagram account, Atta ensures that the content is fully controlled by them as parents.
"Ameena, even if she has social media, we manage it, so we both upload it," he added.
Atta admitted that the challenge of educating children today is much different and scarier than in his time.
"In this era, we are also more horrified to see this mingling... wow, especially before we also used to mingle like that, right?" he said.
Aurel also felt the same way, who now prefers her child to be at home rather than having to be exposed to free association outside.
"Sometimes the relationship gets more scary, so it's like, God, it's okay, my child may not be as cool as I was in the past," said Aurel.
Awareness of the future of children makes Atta and Aurel pay close attention to religious and moral supplies from an early age.
"How is their knowledge, how are they with God, how is their religion, we have to take care of it," said Atta.
As young parents, they try to position themselves as friends so that children feel comfortable telling stories.
"Sama yang sekarang nih harus dirangkul tapi mungkin kita mengajak ngobrolnya lebih ke as a friend aja gitu loh," tambah Aurel lagi.
For them, maintaining the mental and physical health of children is the top priority amid the onslaught of unstoppable digital information.
"The name of the parents must also want to keep their children mentally healthy, yes, all of their health is also good," concluded Atta.
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