Today’s assignment really touched on something as a parent I feel I struggle with everyday; is technology making our children weak, more vulnerable, and in plain terms stupid. Mark Bauerlein refers to the under 30 generation as being “the dumbest generation”, and in many ways I wonder if he isn’t correct. I know I struggle to pry my child from the IPod, or the computer to get her outside and enjoy the fresh air. Their relationships are on the computer, they network and text instead of study and imagine. And who is really to be held responsible, if the technology is there it is going to be wanted and used, but doesn’t it fall on the parents to help find the balance and find control?
Something that I thought of today was a term that was brought to my attention when I was looking into ADD and ADHD, this is NDD or Nature Deficit Disorder, where people are so disassociated with the world around them that they don’t know what their natural surroundings are. It blew me away to think of a world that was so technology based that they forgot the sunset or that the trees are the reason we breathe. But it is the truth, you look around at all the faces stuck to their cell phones, I pads and all the other little gadgets we all feel we need to leave the house and it is really no surprise that NDD is something that really exists.
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