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Zoom Out to See All the Needs of Your Child’s Brain
Sometimes what we need to live better lives is not a resolution, but simply a shift in focus. Often this shift in focus is an expansion. We become hyper-focused on one part of our lives and this causes us to neglect other areas. We then feel like a failure because so much of our life is in disarray, falling apart, a mess.
Pulling back the zoom feature reveals the big picture. Sometimes we zoom in simply because that big picture is of a messy room. We seek to avoid it and zooming in is much faster and easier than cleaning the room.
We do this not only when trying to take photos in a messy house. We do it when we are teaching our kids. The most common tendency is to hyper focus on shoving more and more information into their brains. We think giving them a great academic foundation will give them an amazing future.
And we zoom in on just that part of the day and of their lives. We forget all the other things their brain needs to grow. Children are not computers. We can’t make them more amazing just by throwing more code at them.
Their brain needs a few things that computers do not. Without these things we are essentially stunting their academic development and growth, because feeding them information is just one of four things that their brain needs for healthy development.
