The generation GAP grows, wider YET, due to the advances in, technologies, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Based off of the Statistical Measurement Department findings in 2018, there were 114,337 families that are with children being raised by grandparents, compared to the 86,902 families back in 2008, in just a decade, there’s, the thirty-percent growths. The Taiwan Fund of Children & Families told, that with the implementing of the new curricula, and the increased technology advances in teaching, the cross-generation upbringing problems is becoming digital, the grandparents who don’t know how to use the high-tech gadgets, not only won’t be able to help the grandchildren with their assignments, it may well, exacerbate the conflicts between the generations as well.
The 68-year-old grandmother, Li-Ling, her son is deaf-mute, after he divorced, the granddaughter was left to her to shoulder, while her husband and her son worked for measly pays. The elderly woman told, that she’d raised her own granddaughter from when she was a baby, that’s why her granddaughter referred to her “grandma mom”, they are very close with each other.
With the child getting older, she’s already, twelve now, Grandma Li-Ling told, that she only had an elementary education, and, she can only, sit and stare, at the various sorts of homework assignments that her granddaughter is bringing home now; and her granddaughter often bugged her about getting a cell phone, a computer too, but because of the household economics, they simply, can’t afford them.
Another elderly woman, Jing-Ji, raised her three middle school and high school age grandchildren all on her own, and, when the grandchildren needed the computer to do their homework, she, not knowing what a computer is, can only, put the grandchildren out to pasture, let them figure it out all on their own.
The office manager of the Social Work Department of Taiwan Fund for Children & Families, Tsai stated, that in the past, other than the lacking in resources that came to these cross-generation upbringing families, there’s the generation gaps, the differences in views of the generations, or as the grandparents needed to make the money, not paying attention to how their grandchildren are doing, but with the prevalence of the internet, more of this differences show up in the ability to use these, high-tech devices.
Tsai said, a lot of schools are currently employing the A.I. teaching methods, which caused these elders, who aren’t agile in using the hi-tech devices, to feel even more helpless in helping their grandchildren in learning.
And, everybody has a cell phone in hand, and when the grandchildren bugged the grandparents about having a smartphone or a laptop, it’d, caused the grandparents trials as well; the fees for the cell phones, the gaming points, it’d, added on to the conflicts in upbringing.
The manager of the head of social worker of the Children’s Welfare League, Song pointed out, that in recent years, the reforms in the curricula, for the grandparents who are used to the cramming methods of learning, they have it, even harder, trying to help their own grandchildren with their homework. And, a lot of the instructors selected to communicate with the parents using LINE, and the grandparents who don’t know how these SmartPhones worked, lost the chances to discuss their issues with the school teachers, and other parents as well.
And so, this, is a problem, that will, only cause the generation gaps to widen, and it’s still, all due to the development, of these, high-tech devices, because the grandparents who are left to raise the grandchildren, are too old to know how to use these things, and learning how to work these high-tech devices became a must-have skill in today’s world, and this is causing the troubles, between the grandparents and the grandchildren they’re, bringing up.