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Our children, especially the very young, are a generation in peril.
As masking is continually thrust upon us year after year, we are already beginning to see some very obvious danger signals coming from our young. These danger signals arise from the continual wearing of masks. The average school-aged child is now masked for 50-80 hours a week!
With widespread masking, we are placing younger children in danger of missed and misconstrued emotional and neurological growth and development. The skills necessary to discern emotions and the neurological changes are hampered when everyone around a child is wearing a mask. It may also make it impossible to distinguish one face from another. The social and psychological implications alone are deeply disturbing.
I am not here to sound an alarm, but to get your attention to the very real problems arising in children wearing masks most of every day and through key developmental years. We are already hearing about a number of ways this hysteria is causing potentially long-term harm to our children. Educators are reporting that children’s academic development is suffering by lengthy periods of time away from the classroom and then being masked in the classroom where the mere presence of masks ‘anonymises’ the group from each other and their teachers.
A report from Dr. S. David Mellon, Ph.D. who is a child development specialist strikes a chord of concern. In it he says, “Already in just 2 years of study we are finding an average I.Q. drop of 15-20 points among children between the ages of 8 and 17 years. This lowering of perceivable intelligence can be directly attributed to the masking, social distancing, and classroom attendance moratoriums nationwide.”
Most damaged in the students’ repertoire of studies are reading, writing, and math.
Click here for more: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/nurturing-resilience/202012/will-wearing-masks-affect-children-s-emotional-development
If this pandemic hysteria ever clears up and common sense emerges there are at least two things we’ll have to do if we are to rescue this ‘lost generation’.
● We must once again encouraging children to get dirty. Other than washing hands before eating, or after using the toilet, we are going to have to make it every child’s right to eat food off the floor, roll around in the dirt, wrestle with friends and hold ‘tea parties’ with others their age. A little filth can go a long way in ensuring strong immune systems and well-developed personalities.
● And we’re going to have to look our children in the face and teach them again about a range of emotional expressions. They will need to again understand that people say things with their faces and that we shouldn’t be shy about expressing openly what we feel.
I’m Max, and that’s the way I see it!
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