It is unacceptable that the system we rely on to develop children into well-adjusted, learned, cultured adults allows drones to dominate and increasingly devalues freethinkers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.
We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.
You have got to keep autistic children engaged with the world. You cannot let them tune out.
The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.
We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.