Written by: Flávia Rigonato Rodrigues, Executive Contributor
Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise.
Some time ago, we lost children in rivers, in the bushes, in the seas. Today, we have lost them inside the room!
When they used to play in the backyards, we heard their voices, listened to their fantasies, and when we heard them, even from a distance, we knew what was going on in their minds.
When they came into the house, there was no TV in each room nor electronic devices in their hands.
Today we do not hear their voices, we do not hear their thoughts and fantasies, the children are there, inside their rooms, and so we think we are safe. How immature we are!
Now, they keep their headphones locked in their worlds, building their knowledge without us knowing what it is...
They literally lose their lives, still alive in bodies, but killed in their relationships with their parents, locked in a global world of so much information and stimuli, of passenger fads, which in no way contribute to the formation of safe and strong children to make morally correct decisions and according to their family values.
Inside their rooms, we lose our children because they don't even know who they are or what their families think. They're already dead of their family identity... They become a mixture of everything they have been influenced by, and parents do not always already know what their children are.
How about taking your children out of the room, away from the tablet, mobile phone, computer, headset, and buying board games instead?
How about playing with them, listening to their voices, their speeches, their thoughts?
Try this for a week and see the results. Then try it for one more week. I am sure you will find only benefits for your children, and for the entire family, as well.
Flávia Rigonato Rodrigues, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Flávia Rigonato Rodrigues is an ESL Brazilian teacher. She’s been teaching English for almost 30 years and runs her own school called Business Talk® English and Immersion. She's also a TEDx Licensee curator and organizer at TEDx Carioba, and a TED Translator, as well.
Apart from teaching in a classroom, she takes people to hotels for a whole English-speaking weekend. She’s a postgraduate in psycho pedagogy and also neuroscience and behavior. She’s recently become a TEDx Speaker.
Her main focus is on FLA-Foreign Language Anxiety and mindfulness meditation to help people speak a foreign language with no barriers.
