EBRAHIM ’EBKOYBIE’ ESSA | Durban IS TECHNOLOGY – the internet, mobile phones, computers, and social media – actually destroying individualism in today’s children?
When none of these modern devices were around, our kids came from different families, different backgrounds, different areas. Most of these households were interconnected to a small degree, depending on whether they were apartments, sets of economic houses or separate cottages.
The main meeting point for children was school. And since learners were coming from, quite often, completely different backgrounds, they learnt a little to copy words, mannerisms, even some skills from their peers.They obviously must have learnt also to mimic and emulate their parents.
Otherwise, they had no other recourse to muster up and fire their imagination, except by reading and listening to stories…
