All our children will become robots in the future if we continue to raise and educate our children as we are practicing now. Disagree? Let's examine our current practices.
1. Do your children play freely nowadays? I look around the learning and play opportunities that we provide for our children, there are all structured learning and play (including the sports). Everything has defined boundaries, rules and structures based on adults' standard. It is not hard to imagine that the future generations will lose the ability to imagine and create given our current practice - everything has a right-and-wrong answer, clear beginning and finish, and fixed sets of rules to follow.
2. Do your children spend at least 3 hours watching TV programs, working/playing computers and video games everyday? If yes, watch out for that! Spending too much time with the "machines" will lead to poor social skills with others. The reason behind it is quite straight forward as the time that is spent with another individual is now spending with the entertaining devices.
3. When was the last time your children and you go into woods? Never or a few years back?! A child without experience with nature is missing out tremendously. Not only physical health can be improved in outdoor play, but also enhance the children's mental, psychological and spiritual aspects. Take your kids for a walk in the park today!
Click on this link to watch an inspiring advertisement about the importance of outdoor play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VndRdVjOjRU A television commercial in which a robot becomes a boy when it ventures outdoors.
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