Adolescence in the age of electronic entertainment.

"Why does my young adolescent have such wandering attention?" "Why is my 23-year-old taking so long to act grown up?"

I believe such a high investment of time and energy in elecronic entertainment can have problematic effects on a young peron's growth.

Start with the problem of WANDERING ATTENTION. Consider the electronic brain training that young children now receive from television, video and computer games, DVD's, movies and the like that hard wire eager minds to enjoy, adjust to, and come to need swiftly changing, sensational, high stimulating entertainment to satisfy their restive attention and fulfill their young lives.

Without it, young people soon feel at a loss, feel bored, unsettled, frustrated, aimless, and disconnected. Deprived of it, they can go through a kind of withdrawal, not knowing what to do with them selves. Rather than actively author their own intrinsic stimulation, they have come to passively depend on an extrinsic electronic source.

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