With the pressures of doing well in society, modern-day parents are under so much stress to raise their children who do well in the future. The complexities of modern parenting are much more exhausting than just providing for your kids.

It is the massive amounts of involvement, enthusiasm, and the state of mind to understand the child’s brain, with so much happening around the world, which gets tiresome and confusing for young parents.

Moreover, with the onset of the global pandemic, this responsibility of being involved has left parents clueless and confused. Parents are finding new ways to get their children to engage in studies, learn more and participate at a more advanced level.

But since they lack guidance about choosing the right methods and mediums, most parents end up burdening themselves and their children. With so many market trends, educational sites, online programs, offline workshops, learning centers, hobby classes, online classes, coaching classes, online learning apps, activities, and such ventures, parents want to do what is best for a child but because there are so many options, they are not fully equipped with the power of decision making, henceforth, chaos and stress rise.

Social media is yet another tool that has caused massive problems among parents. Whether to allow their children to use it, not use it, the amount of time that children spend on social media, what they are learning through social media, and what is the reason they get addicted to social media are some of the hundreds of questions that go through the minds of parents every day.

The world is undergoing a massive change. The social, emotional, psychological, and physical well-being of our children is at risk. Indeed, the advantages of internet-based media are huge but we cannot undermine the associated risk. This leads to a state of panic and confusion among parents as they are left perplexed about how to supervise and regulate the content that their children consume from digital media.

Sometimes parents want their kids to pursue their dreams and chase what they like, for instance, be it sports, music, or arts. But what obstructs the path of these extremely supportive parents is the unavailability of resources and adequate platforms to develop the child’s potential.

It is agonizing to see many students wanting to pursue their passions and making careers out of unconventional paths, but the mediums to enable them to unlock their potential are limited and only a very few children can make it. The rest of them go home with shattered dreams and broken hearts. To prevent their kids from experiencing the heart-wrenching sight of their dreams crushing before their eyes, parents usually do not support the unconventional career paths.

This raises a wall between many children and parents whereby the child thinks that their parents are not understanding them and are not empathetic enough. This then leads to emotional and psychological damage in parent-child relationships.

Dissatisfied with the efforts made by the schools and administrations, parents go for online ed-tech platforms and online coaching classes, internet based learning programs to help their children achieve great heights. But again, they are left dissatisfied due to the absence of a one-to-one mentorship for each child.

Every student is unique. This leads to differences in comprehensive capacities, learning skills, skill sets, time taken to grasp a particular topic, and this large group of students is assumed to be one single child, which is inherently wrong and unfairly biased towards quick learners.

This whole process leaves some students feeling demotivated, primarily because they grasp the academic concepts a little slower than their peers. This leads to their parents trying to provide channels for motivation which, if misdirected or misinterpreted, can cause resentment in young children for their parents.

The woes and worries of a modern parent have increased since the onset of the pandemic. Their children are not able to interact with other children in the playgrounds and classrooms. They are not able to spill food and learn how to eat well with their peers anymore.

Children are deprived of healthy friendships, especially common in younger children. This is causing them to be less communicative and expressive about how they feel and this further damages the relationship between the child and the parents. Some parents are working from home, which leads to handling the responsibilities of being a good parent whilst managing chores and work. This is a very challenging task.

This can lead to some children resenting their parents and alternative ways to vent their worries and frustrations. This can lead to a lot of damage for the child and the family. Parents need to monitor and communicate with their children as much as possible.

The pandemic has been very hard for all of us. We are forced to make things work online, confined to the four walls of our house, but we can make it work. At least we are familiar with the concept of a ‘normal’. Our little superheroes are not aware of the mental resilience they are showing. They have not been exposed to playgrounds and other kids to understand what is normal, they are standing strong every day dealing with immaculate amounts of stress and frustrations without even knowing these words and we have to salute their strength for the same.

Television and the internet are new best friends when they should be playing catch with their peers. Parents need to understand this and be a little easy on their children. This is the time they can communicate and build stronger foundations with their children and devote as much time to them as possible.

Education has taken a complete makeover ever since the dawn of access to the internet and globalization but with the pandemic, it has been revamped, and I still cannot confirm for better or worse. However, this is the time parents devote time to research to find out what is best for their children and talk to them as much as possible to bridge the communication gap and try to set up channels for one on one mentorship.

This is the time parents find out what their child wants in life and then craft a ladder to reach the same floor of success alongside their children. More one-on-one mentorship, online classes and coaching classes, and academics are an immaculate part of our life now, and we need to craft ways around the same to understand and build better relationships with our children.