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Teach Kids to Daydream
Today's children are exhausted, and not just because one in three kids is not getting sufficient sleep. Sleep deprivation (缺乏，不足) in kids has been found to significantly decrease academic achievement, lower intelligence test scores, slower physical growth, heighten moodiness and so on. While the argument for protecting our children's sleep time is compelling, there is another kind of rest that is equally beneficial to our children's academic, emotional, and creative lives: daydreaming. Daydreaming, which looks lazy from the outside, may just be the hidden wellspring (源泉) of creativity and learning.
Not all mental downtime (停工休息期) is alike, of course. Downtime spent playing a videogame or watching a television show may have its charms, but the kind of downtime I am talking about is different. I'm talking about the kind of mind-wandering that happens when the brain is free of interruption and allowed to get rid of the worries of the day. Television, videogames, and other electronic distractions prevent this kind of mental wandering because they interrupt the flow of thoughts and memories that strengthen the foundation of positive, productive daydreaming.
In 'Ode to Positive Constructive Daydreaming'—an article Scott Barry Kaufman cowrote with Rebecca McMillan—reads:
For the individual, mind wandering offers the possibility of real, personal reward, some immediate, some more distant. These rewards include self-awareness, goal driven thought, future planning, simulating the perspective of another person, evaluating the implications of self and others' emotional reactions, moral reasoning, etc.
In other words, daydreaming only appears lazy from the outside, but viewed from the inside—or from the perspective of a psychologist, such as Kaufman—a complicated and extremely productive neurological process is taking place. Viewed from the inside, our children are exploring the only space where they truly have autonomy (自治权): their own minds.