Valeria Verna

As anticipated by the title of the article, I will try to offer some food for thought between the correlations of the use of technological tools and the numerous problems of children in their developmental years.

We are facing very hot days lately; I’ve been wondering for a while “what will I be talking about in my next article for Papillon?”. I certainly didn’t start by talking about the climate because I wanted to talk about the weather (if anything, I’ll give this the responsibility of the issues I decided to address, because we know “the heat goes to the head”); however on the Weather (not atmospheric) and the Heat (not only that of the sun) I will try to say something. Let’s venture into these strange plots!

There is an invisible thread that connects what we write on this blog because last week I read Dr. Gioia Piazzi’s article with great interest and I realize that without knowing it we would both have mentioned the same topic even if for different reasons.

I read a book on my outward journey to Krakow: “Until my star shines” (Liliana Segre with Daniela Palumbo). There is something I would like to share because subsequently I was faced with such current situations that I was forced to make connections between a past time that does not seem to have passed at all.

With the arrival of the new year, more or less, we find ourselves taking stock of what we have done and what we intend to do in the days to come.

It is the evening of January 1st as I write what you are reading and just before starting to tick my fingers on my pc I thought: “The first article of 2023 is a responsibility”, not that it isn’t for all of us in any other day of the year, but the thought went by itself and I said to myself “do well, do better”.

I return to a topic already debated in this blog (it was the first article written by me back in November 2020, “Specific learning disorders. What do children tell us?”), Because in recent days I have read an article sent to me by a colleague psychotherapist and then others again this month due to the fact that the VII national week of dyslexia was celebrated from 3 to 9 October, organized by AID Associazione Italiana Dyslexia at the same time as the European Dyslexia Awareness Week, promoted by the European Dyslexya Association (Eda).

In recent days we have heard so many, among them a statement by Hillary Clinton about Giorgia Meloni is striking: “The election of the first woman premier in a country always represents a break with the past, and it is certainly a good thing. But then, as for any leader, woman or man, she must be judged for what she does “.

In recent days I have read about yet another news event, yet another feminicide. Even three in one day. And again, forgive me for the parallel, I don’t know why it comes to me, but maybe it makes sense, I read some very violent comments to a post by a minor girl who asked distraughtly why she should be forced to keep a child who was the result of violence she had suffered, they answered her “why do you want to do to this poor little one the same violence you suffered“, or “yes you do it and then you give it up for adoption“.

That it takes cues from the cinema is not a big news, at least for those who have already read something written by me on this blog.

Some recent or less recent events reminded me of the great artist Charlie Chaplin and his silent cinema.