Posted on 03/27/2014 1:36:29 AM PDT by markomalley
Yes, I see it in myself as well.
It becomes an addiction. And I’ve noticed that the kids get irritable when they’re allowed to “silo” themselves off from everyone else, regardless of the activity.
**So-called “ADHD,” not just among children, but also among adults, is the new normal. Sadly, many children are medicated **
My theory on this has a lot to do with changing a child’s diet, taking out all the additives and cooking from scratch.
I agree also. I’m so fortunate to have been raised on a farm during a much “quieter” time. We didn’t even have a television until I was 16. Quiet times were common and that didn’t mean punishment either.
We just recently had a guest speaker for our church’s men’s prayer ministry. He gave 9 disciplines that we as Christians should be practicing regularly. One of them was ‘Silence and Solitude’.
Although it is one of many ways to get it, my favorite is to go walking in the woods. Plenty of those to go to where I live.
Indeed, you were fortunate. All of this new technology has its place, but people tend to misuse it.
And I must be one of those people. I cannot drive a car without the radio on.
Some people become so lost in the hyper-stimulation that they reach a point of no return.
However, most of us can learn to slow things down and break the habit of hyper-stimulation. At least, that’s what I’ve been trying to do with my family.
I read somewhere recently where they did a poll and found out that people are even checking their iPhones during sex.
How bad is that????
Well, there is something to be said for staying awake on a road trip.....
I always listen to the radio while I'm driving.
However, mr. mm and I are flying out tomorrow for a week and a half in FL and it's ALWAYS a wonderful time to unwind. I take a lot of walks on the beach and get a lot of God time in. It's like going on a retreat for me (even though we stay with my m-i-l, which could account for the long walks on the beach come to think of it.)
That is REALLY bad.
A few years ago it was just ears: boomboxes, walkmen, etal.
Then came the INCREDIBLE! MP3 player in all of it's expressions.
Now the folks have VIDEO to go along with it!!.
Cars are just overwhelming in the info explosion on their dashboards.
Hardly anything can be 'repaired' these days. It's cheaper to toss it and buy something newer and even MORE complex!
(Hope yer MIL don’t post on FR! ;^)
Must be why I like to go to Utah and wander around rocks for long periods...
Nope. She’s in her 80’s and severely computer challenged.
bkmk
He misses the point about schools. True, hyper-stimulation makes school harder for the students, but it’s still a boring and frustrating experience by design.
School wastes an enormous amount of the child's life.
For example:
My husband is tutoring a 12 year old boy in arithmetic. He has asked the boy to spend one hour each day practicing math.
Last week he reviewed the boy's schedule for a typical school day. This one hour to practice math is 25% of the boy's free time. The rest of the day is entirely consumed with getting ready for school, traveling to school, getting home from school, and school assigned homework.
My homeschoolers rarely spent more than 2 hours a day in formal homeschooling. The rest of the day they **played**. It was an amazing phenomena to watch but very young child, if there is no TV or other electronics, can and **do** spend hours ( even days, weeks, and months) playing ( ie: “working”) on projects that interest them. Gradually, their play became their adult work and highly refined adult hobbies.
How can children learn to concentrate if they are never given the opportunity and their lives are constantly interrupted by bells, schedules, and appointments?
When I attended college in the early 70s students talked to each other as we waited in the hall for the door to the class to open. Not any more! The students’ eyes are glued to their smart phone screens and **everyone** has both ears stopped up with ear buds. They are social ( I suppose) just not with each other.
Excellent advice.
Too bad the young people will never see or hear this, or will tune it out as “boring.”
If ADD were a problem, I would do as you suggested and then also remove the child from school and get rid of all the electronics ( especially TV and video games).
Good advice and changing their home environment/school environment diet too.
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