http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT1AaZfhbGA
This video reminds me of the beauty and innocence of a child. Have you ever watched a child play? It is exhausting just to watch as they put every bit of their energy into it. Body and mind. Whirling around, zooming across, building with blocks indoors, colouring, lining up toy cars and "baking" a cake. Whatever it maybe, they do it with all energy and all innocence.
Do we as adults have the right to bottle that energy up inside of that child, to mar that innocence with television? Think about it.
A child sits in front of the TV, never ever having to respond to it, no matter what is seen or heard. And what is seen or heard can so quickly fill that innocent mind with a jumble of information the child cannot even discern to make any sense of. It just lies on top of that innocence like a stifling rubber mat and underneath the innocence lies the energy, which just builds up and up and up and has no way of being released. Not a pretty picture isn't it?
How many children are put in that position every single day over and over again? Is there really any reason to wonder why we have so many "hyperactive "or "ADHD" or "whatever label you may wish to put on them" children today? What other result could there possibly be?
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