You’ve let this room and this house replace you and your wife in your children’s affections. This room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents — David McClean, The Veldt
The reason David said that was because he knew Wendy and Peter have been spending too much time in Africa. The whole story leads me to see that the use of technology incorrectly can also have a negative effect on user behavior, especially to children. When children are spoiled by parents who let them using technology without a rule in the first place and not thinking about the consequences will make the children headstrong and difficult to control.
Children are ages that are learning various things and behaviors around them. When children spend more time in that nursery room than their parents, they might feel more connected to that room than their parents which made the children disobey what their parents said but believed in what the room said instead. What I mean is that the children learn about the behaviors in virtual projections around them in that room instead of their parents. They learn and mimic the behavior of tigers in Africa and see death as normal. That caused the child to have violent behavior and lack of judgment because no one tells them in that room what was right or wrong.
Likewise, incorrect solutions that escalate matters like blocking children from entering that room or shutting down their home systems are not the solution to the problem either because it will make the child more aggressive and curious.
This story can be related to what is actually happening in our lives about the imitation of children with various media both on TV and the internet which is commonly seen or children who are addicted to mobile phones or other technologies that need to be used, even when outside the house. They spend a lot of time with it, like Wendy and Peter, who spend time in that room.
Therefore, parents should be the ones who guide their children to use technology correctly and tell the children what they absorbing are right or wrong from the start without making the same mistakes as parents from the veldt who realizes it’s too late.
I think what the author of The Veldt trying to say is the idea that machines that fulfill our every whim do not create true happiness.
The content of this article reminds me of my old work. It’s about the human behavior that mimics one another over the internet. The example that I brought up was the internet challenge, which is a good example of the internet that people are copying without considering the consequences.
