Growing up in Global Techno India: Children in Urban Family and their Behavioural Pattern

The construction of social world depends on micro and macro world of a child. It includes altogether the parental relation, sibling/kin relation, neighbourhood/peer relation and parental education and economy. The integration and coordination of these worlds are considered as appropriate control strategies for psycho-social, moral and other development of a child. But in present global techno India relational pattern has been turned into a truncated one. Most of the children grow up as single in this context. In place of that modern technological appliances and its uses have occupied major role in their daily life. It has impacted on their childhood behavior which is bored. Thus the objective of this study was to explore the childhood behavioral pattern and remedial measures to improve it. For this purpose 50( N=50 = 25 male + 25 female) single child of 8-10 years of age from urban family of Kolkata City was randomly selected and they were the students of a reputed English Medium school. Personal interview in semi-structured schedule, group interaction and activities, interview with teachers and parent(s) were used to collect data and assessment was done to diagnose their magnitude of behavioural pattern. It revealed that 90% of them had problem in their behavior including inattentive, quarrelsome, arrogant, absentmindedness and so forth. The use of technology would be replaced by active relational pattern in their micro world for their improved mental health.