I am an occupational therapist with years of experience working with children, parents, and teachers. I completely agree with this teacher’s message that our children are getting worse and worse in many aspects.
I hear the same consistent message from every teacher I meet. Clearly, throughout my time as an Occupational Therapist, I have seen and continue to see a decline in children’s social, emotional, and academic functioning, as well as a sharp increase in learning disabilities and other diagnoses.
As we know, the brain is malleable. Through environment, we can make the brain “stronger” or make it “weaker”. I truly believe that, despite all our greatest intentions, we unfortunately remold our children’s brains in the wrong direction.
Here is why:
1. KIDS GET EVERYTHING THEY WANT WHEN THEY WANT IT
“I am Hungry!!” “In a sec I will stop at the drive thru” “I am Thirsty!” “Here is a vending machine.” “I am bored!” “Use my phone!” The ability to delay gratification is one of the key factors for future success. We have the best intentions — to make our child happy — but unfortunately, we make them happy at the moment but miserable in the long term. To be able to delay gratification means to be able to function under stress. Our children are gradually becoming less equipped to deal with even minor stressors, which eventually become huge obstacles to their success in life.
The inability to delay gratification is often seen in classrooms, malls, restaurants, and toy stores. The moment the child hears “No”, they react with belligerence because parents have taught their child’s brain to get what it wants right away.
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The kids need to go outside and they would find a world of things to do, and play hard and have a great time.
ReplyDeleteAll said by someone that knows nothing about child psychology. Kids 100 years ago acted the same way. It how an immature brain works. Kids brains have not changed in 100 years. Kids will always act like that and expect immediate gratification. There is no concept of "deferred gratification" in a youngster's mind, and you can't "teach" that immature brain to accept the concept. Oh yeah, you can deprive them of the things they get pleasure from, but why? Or like many on the shore subscribe to, just beat them when they whine for the things they want but why? Just to exert your dominance over them, that's why. Kids are kids, and kids act like kids do.
ReplyDeleteWas going to respond, but you can't argue with fools.
DeleteThe parents were programmed by the media.
ReplyDeleteWe live in a corporate facist state.
The corporations have tremendous power
4:21 - You are the problem
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