Focusing Your Mind on Your Goals; Avoiding Brain Pollution

[Aquarius]

My 8 year old daughter spends a lot of time on YouTube and TikTok every day, filling her brain with junk videos and junk information. (She mainly watches Minecraft anime.) I have tried to stop this by reading books to her and playing non-digital games with her, but this way takes up a lot of my time. She likes to paint, create something, but can't beat YouTube. Do you have any good suggestions?

If you keep this behaviour up you will have a zombie teenager full of mental problems down the line. Take your responsability as a parent.

An 8 year old shouldn't even have an ipad. I don't want to offend you, but I believe that parents who give their kid so much access to the internet have failed as parents.

You are literally setting up your daughter to fail in life.

 

[tyrantmage]

tyrantmage HPS Lydia is right about people not being focused or grounded. It all seems to make sense. As to why people show an ego. and throw an attitude tantrum fit, and act like children instead of learning or opening themselves up to learn? Is because they want the attention and it's all about feeding the ego instead of being real. People nowadays it seems like they don't want to learn or they want to be somebody or something they're not? Just to get attention that they don't deserve it's like they want an easy way in to something or an easy way out of something? Instead of being able to open up and focus on something and allowing themselves to learn? And learn something the right way listening to teachers and getting an education on something seems to be an issue with the young people these days. And it's not so much just young people either! It is people of all ages that seem to have an ego and an attitude problem anymore

Oh yes I'm sorry if my question was out of context relative to the original post by HP Lydia. When I read HP Lydia's post It just came to my mind for the first time that I've been trying to do planetary squares but I never had the tool to do them at their respective planetary hour. After HP Lydia mentioned the mercury square I thought it was relevant. But since the window for mercury squares is closing I might have to do it in the next opportunity. Its quite hard to create the proper affirmations and to create and Idea about my desired outcome. So I think I need more time to gather more info on what I really need. Thank you all and HP Lydia for your understanding again sorry for posting my question in the wrong thread.

 

[Nagaraja]

If your spouse/partner is cooperative then just limit your daughters screen time and monitor the content she consumes. If, or rather when, you get more or less drastic reactions about denying her use of the phone/tablet/computer, try to calmly explain and remind why you're doing it. The last part is something that you will have to do over and over many times.

My children watch around an hour of yt videos and it's usually either cartoons, educational stuff or documentaries and it's not every day. The don't have their own phone or computer even though all their friends do, instead they have smartwatches that do the same job with less radiation and there's no games on those. For games that need to be approved by their mother or me, and watching videos they have tablets and they're used to not having them anytime for as much as they want or they just find whatever movie they feel like watching, provided it's not the unacceptable kind, and watch it on the big screen.

It's a process that requires time and patience but in what would you rather invest your time other than your daughter, right? We have to adjust to their changing needs and wants and accept that it is a worthwhile effort even if you don't see the effects right away

Good luck. I know it's a tough issue but we're not at the level of other people, you can do it. SS cannot allow their offspring to become the average youth with brain rot setting in and npc behaviors.

Parenting is tough and like walking on a wire. A lot of balance is needed.

Thanks for the advice. You are right. I should use my time for her. It will not be much time for me or for her, because children will grow up soon. Maybe what I need is patience... Thank you for reminding me of this important point.

 

[Nagaraja]

Umun wrote a good reply right above this one.

You might want to consider restricting her time with devices, and only allowing her to access them after she spends a certain amount of time on other activities. My parents rarely let me watch tv, and always encouraged me to find something to do, create games, or make art, and so on. Tv, tiktok, etc rot the brain and destroys normal function, such as the reward center (healthy dopamine, etc).

It's good that you spend time with her doing non-digital activities. It does take up a lot of time, but it will be a great reward for you.

Thank you for your reply. I myself grew up with limited TV as a child. Because of this, I learned to read and acquired the ability to read and think. But I didn't get many friends. I couldn't talk about TV with them. I wanted my daughter to make friends. So Umun is right, Balance is probably the key.

 

[Nagaraja]

If you keep this behaviour up you will have a zombie teenager full of mental problems down the line. Take your responsability as a parent.

An 8 year old shouldn't even have an ipad. I don't want to offend you, but I believe that parents who give their kid so much access to the internet have failed as parents.

You are literally setting up your daughter to fail in life.

Yes, you are right. Giving YouTube or tiktok to make time for myself is not a good thing. I should reduce my pc and smart phone use time . Thank you for your advice!

 

[Basileus]

Thank you for your great words HPS Lydia, you are truly wonderful

 

[Basileus]

Oh yes, another thing that I wanted to say which I just remembered when I was reading in regard of the knowledge and wisdom as a comparison.

On a social group of so called "philosopher" and yes, we do exist, some guy asked a question, the question was: "What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?"

And someone replayed with : Well.. knowledge is when you know that a tomato is a fruit and wisdom is that , by knowing that a tomato is not a fruit then you won't add a tomato to a fruit salad. It's about the idea, the principals, if any of you really use a tomato on a fruit salad it doesn't really quite matter as you enjoying it ,that's all that matters.

Bless you all and stay blessed ,trust in the Gods and stay unite as we are gathering together closer and closer to the once again , NEW and Reformed the Golden Era of Father Satan!