
Johann Hari: Stolen Focus Pt. 2
Oprah's Super Soul
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Children's Attention Problems
By the time leonore was a mother, in the 19 nineties, that had ended. In fact, by two thousand and three, only ten % of american children ever played outside without an adult. Childhood became something that happened entirely behind closed doors. For every one child who was identified with serious attention problems when i was seven years old, there's now a hundred children who've been identified with that problem. The single best thing you can do for kids who are restless, don't want to, who can't focus, is let them go and run around and then come back. When adults stand over children and supervise their play and establish the rules and tell what to do
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