Wednesday, October 15, 2008 > Talk > From my email

One of my readers, Jan Zbiciak Brummett, sent the following:

A thoughtful and useful post.

Some notes I made while reading…

I see that you mentioned this item in the college years, but it is also true, much, much earlier… as kids are often led astray well before that time, often out of boredom and by peers. Idle, energetic hands are apt to find some outlet for all of that energy; predictably it will be spent either positively or all too often expressed negatively. By providing suitable, intelligent and creative outlets, parents and schools are actually directing energy into useful and beneficial sources, both for student and for the culture as a whole. Teaching a child to “play” with imaginative resources, encourages an inspired, bright, able, problem solving adult.

Social perks: if Joe is preoccupied with an activity that he loves and one which fascinates him, as an active, highly energetic young person (characteristic of the typical middle school student) he is also much less likely in the earlier years to be distracted and misdirected or self-directed into activities such as vandalism and/or experimenting with drugs and sex.

Habits such as these will also be passed on to Joe’s children as he continues to fill his adult life with productive practices which he developed very early in his life. Patterns of productive, positive activities will be overtly or inadvertently passed on to those around him and will influence others simply by his behavior.

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