Watch a child play.

It is exhausting....just to watch... as they put every bit of their energy into it ... body and mind.

Whirling around with the wind in the back yard ... digging holes in the sand box.....zooming across the driveway on that three wheel bike.... building with blocks indoors .... coloring .... lining up toy cars .... "baking" a cake...

Whatever it may be... all energy .. and all innocence.

Do we as adults have the right to bottle that energy up inside of that child .... to mar that innocence .... with television?

Think about it..

A child sits in front of the TV..... never ever having to respond to it... no matter what is seen or heard ... and what is seen or heard can so quickly fill that innocent mind with a jumble of information the child cannot even discern to make any sense of.... it just lies on top of that innocence like a stifling rubber mat ..... and underneath the innocence lies the energy ... which just builds up and up and up ... and has no way of being released.

Not a pretty picture .. is it?

How many children are put in that position every single day over and over again?

Is there really any reason to wonder why we have so many "hyperactive "or "ADHD" or "whatever label you may wish to put on them" children today?

What other result could there possibly be????