514 sats \ 4 replies \ @03479d0ee6 22 Feb \ on: Why Can’t People Read and Write Anymore? charts_and_numbers
Kids don't read anymore they grow up with mobile phones and tablets. People also don't write, they type and everything as autocorrect. So there you go, its up to parents to try to correct this at home imo.
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Im not talking about Chicago in particular but as a global trend in the west. Lack of social interaction, lack of physical activity, lack of hand writting that includes basic hand calculations and lack of reading impacts cognitive capabilities as kids grow. Reading and writing if you don't practice mostly at an early age it will become more difficult, sames as learning a new language, math requires even more practice, kids are not being incentivised to put the work.
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You have to teach them at young age and put rules in place for when and how they can watch videos on mobile and stuff. For putting the work it's the same, there are times in the day to do choirs, school choirs, home choirs, etc. Good routines. I think it's just a matter of instead of handing over the mobile to a kid to watch cartoons read a book to him. I used to think it was dumb to give young children books but now my 3yo loves them and wants me to read to him. It's also good sometimes to be at home without any TV or music because they will start playing and using the imagination more and will be focused on what we are talking. So I thing as parents we have to fight a bit against the easy things, so that they can learn focus, patience and routines.
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