Barriers to the mental development of children

Today we are very busy to maintain velocity with the fastest lifestyle. At present, we are so busy with life and livelihood that we do not have much time to spend with our neighbors, relatives or even own kids. If I tell about myself that I have spent the best time of my life under the same roof with my brothers and sisters. But now I can not manage time to meet with them. It's not that there's no will, there's no time. Maybe it happened to them too because we are in the same platform. Everyone is busy with their own family. It is not the drawback but the reality. Added to this is the current crisis of Corona pandemic. In the past, people used to come to see each other to show sympathy when they were sick, and now people hide themselves when getting sick.

This culture of isolation is impairing our future generations the most. We spent our childhood in joy and excitement. Especially those who grew up in the village and spent their childhood there was not so robotic like today's kids. We have grown up seeing friendship with each other through social bonds. And we played different sports in our childhood with great joy and enthusiasm. It was a wonderful feeling to have fun in the river with a group of friends in a boat in the rainy season. For those of us who grew up looking at the huge playgrounds and green horizon under the open sky, this busy and artificial concrete city seems a lot more mechanical.

But the sad thing is that our future generations are lacking the mental development. We are responsible for most of this. In many cases we are not able to create a real environment for the proper subjective development of children. Most of the time children are under house confinement especially in urban environment. With the exception of few parks and playgrounds, there is no place for children to play or run. So, they are busy at home with TV, computer and mobile phone. As a result, children are being victimized both physically and mentally. Most of the children in the city are growing overweight due to lack of adequate sports which is not good for health at all.

On the other hand, social media has affected us so much today that parents do not give enough time to their children. Where is the duration to give enough time to the children in the middle of Facebook Messenger Instagram? As a result, children are growing up like their own way.

However, this is not good message for our future generations. There is no harm to be exposed to new technologies, but they need to be able to develop physically and mentally through adequate play and physical activities. There is no need to talk about giving time to children, it is the most important part being a parent. So, we have to think for the proper development of our future generations because this is probably the right time.