Paying Attention

paying attention

Pay attention.   As a child that phrase meant to stop whatever else I was doing and focus on the requested activity.   The phrase, paying attention, connotes immobility.  Here’s the paradox of paying attention.   Learning involves movement.  Movement done automatically activates few new connections in the brain for learning.  When we pay attention to our movements, especially for […]


BOOK | Stolen Focus

It’s been a long time coming.   And now it seems to me we can’t ignore our situation any longer. It may have begun in 1989 with the introduction of Game Boy, which for those of you who don’t know, was played on a handheld device that required only the use of thumbs. By 1993 […]


Attention Deficit to Attention Abundance

attention deficit to attention abundance

Nine million prescriptions were written last year in the United States for school-aged children for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). In 1975 roughly 150,000 children were taking Ritalin. In 2003 about 6 million American children took Ritalin. Drugging children to get them to behave seems to be the trend. What we have learned in the […]