Why in the parks nobody is in there?

I remember when I grew up, that´s not long time ago but it is so different to this moment, now the kids not share with other kids like in my time.  The technology changed the way of the relationship between everybody even among our grandfathers and I am not kidding.

Juan is my nephew who changed my point of view; he loves playing with technological tools, and he does it better than my parents. When I was a girl, I loved going out to play with other kids in the neighborhood, we practiced different sports, we were run and every day we played in the park of our neighborhood.

With the technology the way how  people is connected changes every day, but I think it is awesome although when people do not handled it well I guess that comes troubles in the relationships for the society. I wanted to write about the relationships between friends, but now kids don't have friends in their neighborhood because all the time they stay at home playing with computers, tablets, video games and this kind of things that they never need to share with friends.

Probably in this it century is more important to be connected with the entire world, anywhere and with anybody because technology can do it, though it is more important to talk, see, and share time with the people that in this moment is sitting in the chair across the table, you should turn off your cell phone and pay attention to your family or your friend they want to spend their time with you. I wish I had more free time to play with my nephew, if I had more free time, I would go out with other kids in the block and taught them all the games that I use to play when I was a kid like them. If I live closer to them we would be best friends forever, and we would play at the park every weekend. I wish my sister and my brother in law were not so busy with their work, I wish they paid more attention to my nephew but at this moment it is difficult that  mom´s stay at home to be housewives like my mom was for us. Now parents only have enough time on weekends to play with kids, so kids start to using technology so fast too keep in touch with other people, as a fake circle of friends, or only virtual friends.

Maybe if parents could work part time that would be a temporary fix to control the behavior of children and they can share more time with other kids. If I were my sister I´d prefer other kind of job, or I´d search a job which I could do at home to spend more time with my kids.

I want my nephews and my niece grow up in a simple way, with other friends with the same age, playing at the park as it should be.

Natalia Carlota Salazar Robayo