text｜Fan Cheng
What should parents do if they are addicted to reading online novels? On the Internet, many young people are worried about their parents' obsession with online articles. Relevant data shows that among the groups who have been exposed to digital reading methods, the proportion of people aged 50 and above has reached 23.2%. These middle-aged and elderly people are looking for comfort in online articles, but they are like "children" who have done something wrong and accept their children's "preaching".
Indeed, when parents get old, they become children who need to be "preached" in many ways. For example, if you cannot use a smartphone proficiently, you can't play trendy consumption methods such as scanning codes, swiping cards, and swiping your face. You will treat it as serious news when you see some online messages, and even often forward some "pseudoscientific" health knowledge... you lag behind young people in many common sense of life.
However, when faced with some parents who are addicted to reading online novels, you don’t have to worry too much. Times are changing, and the overall image of parents is also changing, which is not only reflected in their interests, hobbies and leisure methods, but also in their mental outlook. Now, they are also beginning to fall in love with things their children once liked. We might as well stand on their standpoint, enter their inner world, and look at and deal with them from the perspective of others.
For many parents, their youth is not as rich as children today, especially in the family context of "poor children become home early", they often take on a lot of responsibility since childhood, and devote more youth to work and family. Nowadays, most families no longer have to worry about food and clothing, and some retired parents have plenty of time, so surfing the Internet has become a way of entertainment.
They have gradually discovered through their rich attempts that the world of online novels that children once indulged in is so colorful and fascinating. So, this sense of freshness and attraction deeply holds them. On the one hand, they can use this to enter the world of children in that year and try to understand their youth; on the other hand, isn’t this also rekindling their youth? "Intergenerational exchange" in the two-dimensional world, , may also be a kind of reconciliation.
There is no need to live your life step by step, and "what should be done at what age" is not an insurmountable thunder pool. Just as young people can go fishing, dance square dance, soak wolfberry with a thermos cup, middle-aged and elderly people can also watch online dramas and read online novels, there is nothing wrong with this. Moreover, wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing to make up for the regrets of past life and inspire a healthier and more dynamic mentality when conditions permit?
As long as the novels they read do not have common sense mistakes and confusing their views, as long as they are not overly addicted to it, affecting their work and family, leisure methods like their parents are worthy of our respect and tolerance. Moreover, compared with teenagers, they are all adults and have certain ability to judge right and wrong. They must believe that they can arrange their time reasonably.
In addition, from being addicted to watching TV series, to being addicted to watching short videos, to some parents who are addicted to reading online novels, these must be viewed in the context of the in-depth development of the Internet and embedded in the body of public life. In the past, we often said that post-90s and post-00s were indigenous people in the Internet, but ignored With the popularization of network technology and the popularization and lifeization of social media, parents are gradually "immigrating" to the Internet .
Now, it’s their turn to “indulge in the Internet”. We complained back then that our parents didn’t understand us, so why don’t we try to understand our parents now?
Text: Fan Cheng
Picture: Xinhuanet
Recitation: Wang Qian
Editor: Wang Zimo
Editor: Sun Dai Zhang Yongqun
Editor: Sun Dai
