Parents - Are Your Children Losing Out?
Is Your Child Losing?
In a land forgotten by most, the simple stick becomes a staff, a sword, a gun, a spear, a pointer, a torch, and more. The land of imagination has been usurped by computers, electronic notepads, smart phones, and game boxes. Television provides programs that undermine naive youth. When the imagination is derailed by these methods, the results are
foul.
The ability to create is fueled by the ability to remember what you have witnessed before as a foundation. Without good memory, the imagination is stifled, and atrophies like rotting flesh. Little good can come from an imagination fostered on tragedy, violence, and gore. Only further atrocity results.
Parents, continue to hand your 2 year old the electronic game or your cell phone (Mobile phones emit damaging ionizing radiation.) to play with. You steal their ability to develop normally, with the memory and imagination they should have. Your ignorance now will result in a lifetime of disappointment later.
Strong Words of Grave Concern
Cognitive experts have warned parents – They are not listening
Psychologists have provided statistics – They are still not listening.
When the result is a child that does not have proper communication skills and cannot employ basic thought, creativity, and learning skills, the parents sit back and blame the system for allowing it to happen.
Parents:
Your child’s brain is very complicated and must be used and exercised properly in the first years of their life – usually with “play” that stimulates their imagination. This is the time when the most complex interactions are learned that will carry that child through life. Without it, you are condemning the child to a life of irreversible struggle. It is
impossible for you to comprehend all of the problems that will be dealt to that child through their life, as they progress into adulthood, then as an adult.
You cannot repair this tragedy after the fact. However, you can stop the tragedy before it takes hold. Don’t worry. You will not be judged as a bad parent by doing so.
Children and Students Speak Out
There is a new movement underway in many schools – initiated by children. Children are rejecting the use of electronic notepads in the classroom, wanting books instead. Some governments are following suit by banning the use of these devices in the classroom.
Manufactures are crying foul. They are panicking, as their very lucrative, almost guaranteed cash cow has run away. They have spent over a decade building this repetitive sales platform using massive resources, just to see it dry up. Their battle cry is, “The children will not be able to keep up when the newest versions continue to march out every year. The poor
children will be technically disadvantaged.” They do not care how the device affects people, namely children.
Perhaps the opposite will be true, as the children will create the opportunity to strengthen their mind power.
By making their brains work more, their imaginations will be stimulated and enhance memory. Perhaps some of those children will take up photographic memory training and become the next generation of great leaders.
Mind Power – Use it before you lose it.
Dr Shannon Panzo