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Children are addicted to "low happiness" and like to browse short videos, resulting in serious brain damage: beware of children's addiction to "low happiness" in summer.

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By Fausbs BaishekhePublished 2 years ago 6 min read
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Nowadays, short videos are everywhere, and people seem to be used to browsing short videos to pass the time. According to the 49th Statistical report on the Development of China's Internet released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), as of December 2021, the number of short video users was 934 million, and behind this huge data, a large number of users invested time.

You must have experienced it-you've decided to go to bed early, but you can't stop when you turn on your phone on the bed and swipe the screen.

Today's major platforms. There are useless short videos everywhere, but your hands can't stop and brush for hours before you know it.

I always wait until I can't hold on any longer, then I leave my phone and go to sleep.

Children usually go to school and have few opportunities to browse short videos, but now that it is summer vacation, children have a lot of time to browse short videos. Coupled with the habit of browsing short videos by parents or relatives and friends around, the child is likely to be immersed in short videos during the summer vacation.

Although browsing short videos may allow children to stay quiet, it is not recommended to allow children to browse short videos.

Browsing short videos is not only a waste of time, but also brings some imperceptible influence to the child, and even affects the child's brain and learning.

Beware of children indulging in "low happiness"

Once upon a time, there was a topic # low happiness is dragging you down # on the hot search, causing a hot discussion for a while.

Some netizens said that

"We should read more, study more and pursue advanced happiness."

Some netizens also object.

"is there a difference in happiness? is there a chain of disdain for happiness?"

Yes, it is true that happiness can be divided into higher and lower levels.

Low-level happiness can be achieved through indulgence

Advanced happiness can only be achieved through self-discipline.

On the other hand, the top happiness can only be obtained after suffering.

American diplomat Brzezinski came up with the word "Tittytainment" in 1995, which was later translated as "nipple music theory".

Brzezinski believes that social development, economic progress, the gap between the rich and the poor will become wider and wider, and more and more 20% of the population will occupy 80% of social resources.

In order to appease the 80% of the population, 20% of the capitalists stuffed them with pacifiers, immersed them in "low happiness", lost their ability to think and judge, and lost their desire to fight.

How to implement this strategy is to create "low-level happiness" for 80% of people.

(1) develop satisfying entertainment: soap operas, idol dramas, celebrity gossip and other entertainment industries, so that people indulge in pleasure and comfort, loss of self-motivation and deep thinking ability.

(2) develop venting entertainment, such as exciting games, porn industry, hype online war of words, etc.

Short video is the main force among them.

Most of the content presented in the short video is straightforward and funny, which is straight to the topic and quickly stimulates the audience. without deep thinking, it makes people dazzling and can't stop.

The contents of the short videos are all blessed with a dynamic "brainwashing song". These background music have a dynamic rhythm and bright tunes, giving the audience an immersive experience, making people unwittingly browse one video after another.

Most of the content presented in the short video is grandiose and illusory, either playing rich and handsome, or pretending to be ugly and poor, but they are all performed by scripts, and the audience is caught up in it.

Short videos do create a convenient and entertaining world for people, and they can also bring people relaxation. But after browsing these videos, what do we remember? apart from endless emptiness, I'm afraid it's just a waste of time.

Even so for adults, children are in the process of growth and development, and their self-control, self-discipline and judgment are immature, so they are more likely to indulge in them.

What is the harm of indulging in "low-level happiness"

Being in "low happiness" for a long time can lead to addiction. And addiction can cause damage to the brain.

Addiction causes the brain to go through three stages-desensitization, sensitization and functional degradation of the prefrontal lobe.

Desensitization: when we receive a new stimulus, dopamine increases sharply, until through a certain behavior, satisfying this stimulus, dopamine decreases sharply. At this time, we need more stimulation to satisfy this "hunger". This process is repeated over and over again, causing us to be numb to the whole process. For example, the brain becomes happy and excited when you swipe a short video for 2 minutes. But you may not feel excited even if you swipe for an hour now, but you crave it, so you can only spend more time browsing short videos.

Sensitization: you will be more sensitive to addictive related things. in other words, once you get used to browsing short videos, it may be difficult for you to be interested in other things in the world, such as reading, learning, and thinking.

In the process of constant stimulation, desensitization and sensitization, the function of the prefrontal lobe of our brain deteriorates (this is the part of human and animal evolution that is different), eventually unable to control our behavior. Even due to a series of chain reactions, we will have mental disorders, tension, neurasthenia, depression, uncontrollable and other symptoms.

In general, indulging in "low-level pleasures" such as short videos can do a lot of harm to a child's brain.

If children are in "low happiness" for a long time, it is difficult for them to be interested in "boring" learning and reading. They indulge in short-term happiness and lose the ability to think deeply.

And the child's brain is developing, which may also lead to dysplasia, emotional loss of control, irritability and so on.

In the short-term happiness gained by indulgence for a long time, children will also lose interest in those behaviors in life that are less happy and require efforts to achieve happiness, such as reading, sports, learning, and so on.

Resist "low happiness" and accompany children through a meaningful summer vacation

In fact, many times, children indulge in "low happiness", rooted in the family, because in the parents.

If you want to keep your children away from garbage, parents must do a good job in these three points:

(1) taking care of children to do delayed gratification

The reason why we indulge in the "low-level happiness" of browsing short videos is that it can bring you "instant gratification". The happiness it brings is timely and effortless, such as eating melon seeds, playing games, singing and so on. As long as you do these things, you can feel the happiness at that time.

What our children need more is "delayed gratification", such as reading, learning, sports and so on, which can only be happy after spending a certain amount of time and energy to achieve certain results.

This is why children can easily eat melon seeds for a few hours and play games all afternoon, but it is difficult to read quietly for half an hour. Guazi feel sweet when it comes to the mouth, and feel exciting when you open the game, while reading to be happy takes time, needs to understand memory, and feedback is not timely.

Once children are addicted to instant gratification such as short videos and playing games, it is difficult for them to be interested in boring books and complex formulas, and it is difficult to fall down to learn to improve themselves and lose their positive pursuit.

(2) set an example and stay away from "low happiness"

Children lack self-consciousness when they are young, so don't expect them to stay away from "low happiness".

Parents are needed to "force" them at the

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