Summer brings generational colors
Each article on social networking sites evokes many memories, attracting tens of thousands of interactions, thousands of comments. Many readers expressed their nostalgia for childhood and beautiful summers, when social networks and electronic devices had not yet dominated children's lives as they do today.
People's Artist Xuan Bac also had an article on his personal page that attracted a large number of readers, when he recounted that the days in Hanoi were scorching hot, as hot as fire, making him miss home intensely.
I remember childhood hiding from my mother, not taking a nap to catch cicadas. I remember the days when brothers invited each other to the distant field to catch crabs, precisely picking crabs because the water was too hot, crabs could not go down to the water. I remember when I was barefoot, without a hat, shirtless in the sky like this, my hair was golden brown from sunburn..." - People's Artist Xuan Bac recounted.
Under NSND Xuan Bac's article, many comments left to express sympathy. Audiences together recounted the time of picking green fruits to dip in salt, every summer noon craving black bean sweet soup, green bean porridge of grandmother and mother...
Between the comments, there is also a comparison of "summer vacation" and "childhood" with the differences and huge gaps between the 7X, 8X generation of parents and the current generation of children (gen Z, gene Alpha).
Only about 30 years apart, but with the dizzying pace of change of the era, the explosion of science and technology, the dominance of social networks... has created completely different childhood memories between generations and redefined the "summer vacation".
Talking to Lao Dong reporters, education expert Tong Lien Anh (Master of Education at Monash University) said that the changing era has created a contrast in the way each generation enjoys summer vacation.
If the summer vacation of 7X, 8X is the endless space of straw, fields, cicadas and "sunny" afternoons, the summer of Gen Z, Gen Alpha in urban areas is the closed space of air conditioning, glass walls in shopping centers, and rectangles of TVs, iPads, and phones.
Childhood games of the 7X, 8X generations are "self-made", games of Gen Z, high-tech Gen Alpha.
The summer of 7X, 8X is "free", the summer of Gen Z, Gen Alpha is a "cultivation strategy" that is systematically and meticulously planned with life skills courses, summer courses, English lessons, swimming lessons, boarding classes...
Generation Z, Gen Alpha are on summer vacation with limited space and have to shoulder courses and big expectations from parents 7X, 8X.
The 7X, 8X generation after going through the journey of maturity, becoming parents - they are placed in the midst of a timely struggle, they both want their children to enjoy a beautiful summer, carefree and thoughtless like they used to be, but they are also worried that their children will lag behind in a constantly changing digital age.
Parents, let's create a beautiful summer with our children
Education expert Tong Lien Anh said that the digital age - electronic devices and technology items also create a gap for separation in the family.
Parents are too busy, and at the same time, differences in thinking make it difficult for many 7X, 8X parents to connect with their children. We have talked a lot about the problem of electronic device addiction, game addiction, social media addiction... of the young generation. How to "detoxify" children? The only way is to separate them from that boxed world. Create a playground for them, bring them to interesting, attractive books, take them back to nature, and accompany them on long trips... I think only parents can help their children have an interesting summer vacation. No one else, parents must be the closest, most intimate friends, they are the ones who must plan, must create a memorable summer with their children" - expert Tong Lien Anh shared.
According to experts, June 1 should not just stop at the day parents take their children to buy an expensive toy, or eat a fast food meal to "complete their duty".
Summer needs to start with specific plans, with the whole family expressing opinions together, giving ideas and implementing them together.
The biggest gift the 7X and 8X generations of parents can give the Alpha gene is not modern technology devices, but sharing a part of the "freedom" of summer. Give your child the opportunity to touch nature, to be "disconnected" from the boxed space to truly connect with their parents, with the vast and endless life outside the window.
