For a child there is only one important thing any child needs for school or a happy life, both as a child and an adult. Parents who are involued in their child(rens) lives. All any child wants to know if they are important to their parents. Do the parents use machines or sitters to keep the kids out of the way? Or is the home a place of love and acceptence for the child? If your child knows they are loved and needed and not a burden to them, the child should be able to do well in school. Maybe not a stellar student, but at least above average. With love and happiness in the home, all is possible.
If you think about it, anything that becomes omni present in our daily life causes hatred. Remember when computers first became popular? The t.v. backlash in the '80's? The snarls answering machines sparked? When a new invention is placed on the open market there is a slow gradual acceptence. As the items become more popular, they start appearing in our media, movies, t.v., music, etc. When a certain saturation occurs, suddenly, everyone notices the downside to the items. Usually the most hated quality of the item is lack of privacy. Just don't sit there fellow geeks, get out there and invent something new for us to hate!
No. But, it could save humankind. Humans are a funny thing we need to explore, expand, and have something to struggle against. New technology follows in the footsteps of exploration, and saddly enough, war. Spring powered clocks came about due to the need of sailing ships needing acurate time to know where they were. The grand master of science fiction, Issac Asimov, said that humans only had one chance to surive, to expand into space. And I think he was correct. We need new vistas to dream about, just like your dog, we need the wind in our face, with new and unknow smells.
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For a child there is only one important thing any child needs for school or a happy life, both as a child and an adult. Parents who are involued in their child(rens) lives. All any child wants to know if they are important to their parents. Do the parents use machines or sitters to keep the kids out of the way? Or is the home a place of love and acceptence for the child? If your child knows they are loved and needed and not a burden to them, the child should be able to do well in school. Maybe not a stellar student, but at least above average. With love and happiness in the home, all is possible.
If you think about it, anything that becomes omni present in our daily life causes hatred. Remember when computers first became popular? The t.v. backlash in the '80's? The snarls answering machines sparked? When a new invention is placed on the open market there is a slow gradual acceptence. As the items become more popular, they start appearing in our media, movies, t.v., music, etc. When a certain saturation occurs, suddenly, everyone notices the downside to the items. Usually the most hated quality of the item is lack of privacy. Just don't sit there fellow geeks, get out there and invent something new for us to hate!
No. But, it could save humankind. Humans are a funny thing we need to explore, expand, and have something to struggle against. New technology follows in the footsteps of exploration, and saddly enough, war. Spring powered clocks came about due to the need of sailing ships needing acurate time to know where they were. The grand master of science fiction, Issac Asimov, said that humans only had one chance to surive, to expand into space. And I think he was correct. We need new vistas to dream about, just like your dog, we need the wind in our face, with new and unknow smells.