{"id":62303,"date":"2019-09-05T04:09:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=62303"},"modified":"2019-09-05T12:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:35:12","slug":"the-attention-deficit-disorder-that-everyone-is-ignoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/parenting\/the-attention-deficit-disorder-that-everyone-is-ignoring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attention Deficit Disorder That Everyone is Ignoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mom or dad is pushing the stroller down the bundle of joy inside the stroller.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One hand of the parent pushes the stroller while the other hand holds a cell phone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Something engaging must be on that piece of glorified plastic because rather than interacting with the child, the parent is preoccupied with whatever is happening on that screen.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Parents will do this under many circumstances, including while walking in a crosswalk, despite traffic (which is something I don\u2019t get).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is an attention deficit disorder.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is epidemic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It does not have to happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You might think it is funny, especially when you admit to yourself (albeit privately) that you too are part of this raging epidemic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Sadly, both you the parent and your child are suffering and the consequences will be long term.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Allow me to explain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Let\u2019s start with your child.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You, my dear parent, are one of the most important people and \u201cinfluencers\u201d in your precious child\u2019s life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Prior to birth, you are already bonding this this precious gift from G-d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This baby is born knowing your voices and so much more.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He or she relies on you for everything, from food and shelter to love and so much more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One of the biggest gifts you can give your child is stimulation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When you interact with your baby \u2013 including cooing at them and making faces &#8212; you are stimulating them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This means that you are arousing their sense of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Stimulating your baby will help to improve your baby\u2019s attention, memory, curiosity and nervous system development.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In addition, stimulating your baby\u2019s senses will enable them to reach developmental milestones faster.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It will also aid in the development of motor skills.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Frontloading this during the first year of life is the time when your baby\u2019s brain is growing at the fastest rate it ever will.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You are beginning the process of helping your baby to develop a sense of \u201cself.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Babies are marvelous to observe and they provide endless delight.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I am advocating for interacting with your baby because in this case, interaction supersedes observation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Just don\u2019t plunk him down in a playpen and walk away.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Gather age appropriate toys and get down on the floor and play with him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You can make these inanimate toys come alive for your baby by giving them voices and <i>showing<\/i> how to play with them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>By doing so, you are helping to nurture your child\u2019s imagination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Imagination, which the Webster dictionary defines as \u201cthe ability to form a picture in your mind of something that you have not yet seen or experienced: the ability to think of new things,\u201d fosters social and cognitive development.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Imagination is the door to possibilities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is the intersection of creativity, ingenuity and thinking outside the box.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Through imagination and creative play, your child learns about the world.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This helps to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills in children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Try not to just plop your baby in the stroller and start power walking and feel you\u2019ve achieved something.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Okay you have \u2013 you got out of the house and you\u2019re doing something positive for yourself and that is no small thing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But let\u2019s try to maximize the moment to its fullest potential.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Your baby should face you, Mommy or Daddy, especially a little one.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He can watch you and your gestures.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You can smile at him and babies love when parents smile at them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When you have your baby\u2019s full attention \u2013 which is but a fleeting moment \u2013 you can accomplish a lot, provided you are tuned in and interacting with him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Babies are naturally curious and when you satisfy your baby\u2019s curiosity, they will naturally want more.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Why?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Because they are experiencing pleasure!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Once they experience something in which to find pleasure, they will endeavor to learn more about it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Therefore, you, mom and dad, are key in nourishing your baby\u2019s thirst for knowledge.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You should seek to provide your baby with opportunities to experience different stimuli to pique their curiosity and to encourage them to learn more and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The child-parent bond can be an antidote to the anxiety that abounds among children today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1 in 8 children suffer from anxiety and the reasons are multi-factoral.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Some fears are built into the cycle of life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>For example, normal development includes the stranger anxiety phase which usually sets in at about 7 months of life when your baby recognizes familiar faces like mom and dad, and then avoids the unfamiliar.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As healthy attachment to parents grows, separation anxiety, as manifested through crying and sadness emerges, and then improves over the next several years.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Generally, most children are past this stage by the end of kindergarten.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although I could take this article and further describe today\u2019s anxiety, I\u2019m not going in that direction as I\u2019ve already written about it (\u201cLions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When did we become so anxious?\u201d).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Rather, I am underscoring the important role that parents, especially mothers, have in being with their children, talking with them, hearing their hopes and fears, processing information and just plain enjoying them without the cell phone, iPad and other such distractions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When parents are tuned into properly to their children, anxiety can lessen and so much positive can happen.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It requires work.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But what in life is meaningful that comes without work, hard work?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Parents stand so much to gain by properly interacting with their babies, nurturing and raising them through the toddler and early school years, through middle school and then the roller coaster called adolescence and so forth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">We parents want to know that we have done right by our children.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not for one moment am I saying to strive for perfection.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not one of us is a perfect parent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Being a parent entails responsibility.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When you know that you are doing your best to maximize your child\u2019s imagination and developing his sense of self, there is no greater feeling (including exhaustion).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Ideally, we want to be connected to our children at all stages of life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The earlier it happens, the better for all.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I know I\u2019m dating myself (by about 50 years) but Harry Chapin had a song called \u201cThe Cat\u2019s in the Cradle.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It was inspired by several relationships between fathers and sons which Chapin knew about firsthand in which the parent is busy, busy, busy and by the time he is ready for a meaningful relationship with his child, the child, who is now a grown adult, has no time for the parent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There\u2019s a rather poignant line when the parent reaches out to his busy, busy, busy adult child.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>That child is too busy to see his father who then says, \u201cHe\u2019s grown up just like me.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>How sad.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Everyone loses and the damage is irreversible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">We have all seen one-year old children who are facile and quick on cell phones.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They use their tiny fingers to swipe until they find the videos they want.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t find this amusing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Too many parents capitulate to the screaming child who requests\/demands the cell phone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Children have the lost ability to turn the pages of the book but try to enlarge and swipe them instead.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>How sad.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The lack of parenting, interaction, stablishing of boundaries and parents being in charge is negatively impacting children\u2019s social and other development.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Perhaps this is the root of increased anxiety among parents and children today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is Elul, the month of introspection as we prepare for Yom HaDin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There is a subtle reference in the Torah portion about the arei miklat, cities of refuge, to Elul.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What\u2019s the connection between the cities of refuge and Elul?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The cities of refuge were places where people who killed unintentionally stayed and lived and learned Torah.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The person\u2019s Rebbe came.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Kohen Gadol was involved.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Something was open in the perpetrator\u2019s <i>avodat HaShem<\/i> that went awry and the <i>ir miklat<\/i> offered an opportunity for rehabilitation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Elul is our <i>ir miklat<\/i>, our city of refuge as the Jewish year is in its final stretch.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is an opportunity, a gift to each of us to look at ourselves and determine what\u2019s open in our own <i>avodat HaShem<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not being fully engaged with our children as HaShem would like us to be is one area in which to work over the next several weeks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Imagine how this world could be if we would fully appreciate HaShem\u2019s blessings and gifts and give back to Him?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As always, <i>daven<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Thank you to Dovid Chaim Hoffman for his thoughts on this.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom or dad is pushing the stroller down the bundle of joy inside the stroller.\u00a0 One hand of the parent pushes the stroller while the other hand holds a cell phone.\u00a0 Something engaging must be on that piece of glorified plastic because rather than interacting with the child, the parent is preoccupied with whatever is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":62304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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Over the years, Dr. Lightman has served in a number of leadership roles: director of the adult allergy clinic at Louis Lasky Center, director of pediatric allergy and asthma at Queens General Hospital, and co-director of pediatric and adult outpatient allergy at St. John\u2019s Episcopal Hospital. Dr. Lightman is also a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. In addition, he is actively involved in teaching pediatric and family nurse practitioners through Columbia University, Pace University, Lehmann College, and Molloy College, as well as mentoring physician assistants through Touro College. As the Medical Director and a practicing physician, Dr. Lightman has an accessible and friendly manner with parents and children alike. He holds himself and the whole practice to the highest standards of medical excellence, whether it be a simple camp physical or a child with serious symptoms. 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