'The less time and energy you invest in your kids and the people you love now, the less they’ll invest in you later,' writes AnthonySilard
how the effects of screens on increasingly distracted parents are affecting children. Here’s what she told me:
Starting from the moment of birth, kids are really wired to be looking for other human faces and other human voices in real time to be learning from … They do it through their senses, through touching … and they really rely on adults ... consistent, reliable adults that they have attachments with to be able to learn about the world.
Now—like it or not—where they lead, we will follow. The person you will rely on to visit you in your old age and buffer you from the ever-encroaching tentacles of loneliness: a Digital Native. The people who will govern our society and usher it into the future: Digital Natives. If their youth is any indicator, unless we make some significant and transformational changes—rapidly, decisively, soon—an uninviting future awaits all of us.
If many of us were blowing our inheritance well before the pandemic, are we recouping it now? How is enforcedchanging us, if at all? For some, the pandemic is a giant monster, trampling on essential freedoms. For others, it’s a giant reset button. I hope many of us will remember it later as a wake-up call to change our ways; a watershed event in our lives that taught us to spend much more quality and quantity time with our children, other family members, and close friends while we still have the chance. A once-in-a-lifetime lesson that the less time and energy you invest in your kids and the people you love now, the less they’ll invest in you later.
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