Few days back I had a relatively severe shock after talking with my son about how he spent his free time. I admited he watched youtube channels of youths about half cooked truths and conspiracy material.
I had a stomach disorder upon this finding because I thought he was mature enough. the good thing is that we have established an open line of communication with the kid and with all of us.
Finally I took some quick actions like buying science games, taking him swimming and finding out the right channels in youtube that he might be interested in.
The bottom line was that I needed to teach him that time is money and that like he uses money so carefully he too must use time as carefully. I think he got the message.
I am finally relieved eventhough he lost 20 days to youtube junk. In the process of learning some resources will be wasted, it is natural.
Harsh reality for parents
With my son it was easy because we have so much time as parents and myself being a professional consultant, I get down to whatever his mindset is and talk from there up. But for the average parent, no matter to which school they send their kids, the internet is like a monster lurking in every corner of the house ready to feed on your child as soon as you are not paying attention.
This image is so scary that I think no one has even brought the subject up.
My problem is solved but I doubt it many other parents even know what the real problem is, let alone what the individualized solutions for them are. Most parents think the problem is that their kids play games, use the mobile too much or watch porn. But that is only the observable manisfestation of the problem. The real problem is the fundamental flaw in the brain circuit of the child that has started to believe in an archetype of dopamine filled life as a default instead of the traditional and eternal an archetype of endophine after cortisol filled life. If you get what I am trying to say it is so scary. The former archetype existed before but it was limited to the poor and the under-performers. Now it is prevalent in the rich and the potential high performers who alas will never find their potential.
The 3rd archetype of happiness: seretonin followed by cortisol too has been disturbed because the 1st archetype of dopamine happiness is easier and quicker. So the young people have become not only lazier but have lost ambition. What kind of population will inhabit the world in 50 years from now when the learned and ambitious ones are dead? There will be lazy theory x type of people who will be paid to consume so as to sustain the economy.
The creators of today’s technology is destroying the next generation by propagating the worst archetype. Never in history of humanity so many people got stuck in the dopamine archetype. upto the 2015’s it was the seratonin archetype reigning. Now it is falling to dopamine archetype.
Few of the parents who are wise enough to understand this will be able to safeguard the neurology of the children to operate in the archetype of endorphin. The rest are doomed to a lowly existence less than their earlier generations who lived lives of regret despite all their material trappings.
What a sad future! of course it is unless someone like me
