 Disease statistics these days are revealing some ghastly facts with diseases that were once thought to affect only the adults now affecting young children. With childhood obesity on the rise, there has been a significant increase in the number of kids with diabetes and heart disease. It looks like our children don’t need to be suffering from diseases like progeria anymore to age faster. Their lifestyles and dietary habits are already doing this. Gone are those days when children were children, scampering around the house mischievously, full of energy and enthusiasm. They longed to rush out to indulge in their sweet fancies and fun, using their innovative genius and creative skills to device new games or activities to entertain themselves.
These days, children are more or less like little adults. Junk food is their delight, computer or video games are their concept of fun, and cutthroat competition to try to be the best is already leaving them stressed out enough to contemplate suicide at an age when we probably didn’t even know what death was all about. The number of children who need spectacles has also gone up considerably in the past one decade. The strangest thing is the brand consciousness and appearance or performance anxiety that seems to have infiltrated the mind of even the tiny tots. You have 2-year-olds now telling you the difference between an expensive, branded toy and a cheap, local one. Most of them have lost their innocence and have become precocious.
The situation has already got out of hand but we certainly need to put efforts to reverse this trend. After all, children are born as blank slates. We are the ones that they try to imitate. We are the ones who cause them stress by pressurizing them for results. We really need to do something; or else, we will soon have diseases in family packs!
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Tags: Adults, Brand consciousness, Childhood obesity, Children, Computer games, Cutthroat competition, Diabetes, Diet, Diseases, Family packs, Heart Disease, Innocence, Junk Food, Lifestyle, Performance anxiety, Precocious, Progeria, Suicide, Video games, Young
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