RE: RE: Readily Underprovisioned
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RE: Readily Underprovisioned

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This is a topic that interests me greatly, and one that I think about a lot. Not because I have a child like you, but because even though I don't have children, I have three goddaughters. This gives me the opportunity to interact with the younger generations on this planet. I see the constant challenges they face. And I also notice how their parents view life, and what they strive to provide not only as role models, but as a lifestyle for their daughters. Clearly, one of my goddaughters is much more exposed to books, and although she is a girl who likes sports activities such as playing ball, roller hockey, and trampolines, she ended up developing a special taste for drawing.

She doesn't have a great taste for reading, but not because she hasn't been exposed to it. However, the reading she was exposed to made her develop an interest in other topics and opened up the world to her. Another goddaughter I have, whose parents are not as careful. Perhaps because of the type of jobs they have, they don't have the resilience to give her a little time, and they end up letting that time be replaced by time in front of a tablet, or even on some YouTube channel. Leaving her education in a much more liberal way... Which, in my view, will bring great challenges for her future intellectual development.

This Christmas was the first Christmas that I didn't give her clothes or a book. Her mother asked for a toy that is basically kinetic sand. I'm not sure if I'm explaining it well... But it ends up developing fine motor skills. The girl's psychologist advised her parents to do this... It seems that she suffers from a type of anxiety, where when she can't complete a task, she feels very frustrated and inferior to her peers. Could this have come from a life of easy consumerism, where not having to make much effort to consume or interact with the world led her to create a model in which nothing that requires a little more effort seems worthwhile?

This is an issue that concerns me, as I see it repeated in many children I come across every day. Are we creating a society in which true information will only be available to those who make an effort to seek it out? I agree with you, and I think this will be one of the major problems of the coming decades, and it will be accentuated with AI.

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