Don’t feed your child’s mind with junk thoughts
Maggie has been banned In India as it contains lead more than
it is required. Other food items too have lead content but at the required
quantity.
There are standard units of licensing the food items to have a
physically healthy population, but what about the mental fitness or health?
We are so much conscious about the physical health, don’t we
ignore the development of the healthy mind. There is a saying ‘A healthy mind
resides in a healthy body’, but I don’t find it right when I look around the
world there are many physically fit (extra conscious about the physical fitness
and are extra fit too) people carry the most polluted/unhealthy minds. What may
be the reason behind it?
The reason lies in the roots of the developmental stages of a
child, where parents lay stress only on the physical development of the child.
Parents are well aware of the healthy food; eating habits etc. they keep on
feeding their children to keep them fit and healthy.
Development of the child’s mind is totally neglected. Parents
leave it to the mercy of the child whatever comes in his way he keeps on taking
it in and in. It develops on its own
with the time passes. The child copies the same what he gets from his family.
The family members do not have patience to be the role model for the child. They
cook their behavior just like two minutes Maggie noodles in two seconds and
serve it in the child’s plate without any do’s or don’ts.
Child’s tender brain picks up the nutrients for the development
of his cognitive, language, social or emotional skills everything on his own. The
brain has a tendency to set the patterns of what ever goes in. If it goes in
repeatedly the patterns become firm and that reflects in his behavior.
Initially parents feel happy for every action of the child
that encourages the child to do the similar action over and over again whether it
is right or wrong. He does it to make others happy and gets reinforced by their
gestures. Initially parents enjoy considering him a child; they believe that he’ll
improve as he grows.
Gradually as the child grows the normal behavior is not
considered and appreciated but the nasty behavior is criticized by everyone. That
criticism too becomes the reinforcement for the child as he is getting
attention and it strengthens the patterns in the brain to react to the
situation in his own acquired way. When the child applies the same behavior in
all the situations he is labeled with many negative tags. Those tags hurt to
the parents even and bring frustration in the child who decreases the
efficiency of the child and leads to a low self esteem and escaping behavior or
vice verse, the child becomes outrageous.
The ignorance of the food for the mind results negatively. Feed
the body with edible nutrients and mind with audible nutrients, good thoughts.
Feed the body and mind of your child with utmost care. No Junk
food for the body or mind is permissible, Say no to two minutes cooking, have
patience cook well serve well.
Happy parenting!
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