Children need breaks and a little understanding

 When we are little, we got naps and recess during school. We get snacks and laughs. Lots of games and toys. 

As we get older the laughs grow shorter, the naps become secret, and the recess disappears. 

Even though it is scientifically proven older kids and teenagers due better with brain food, a quick nap, or even a brain break schools don’t implement any of these ideas to help their students learn. 

I think it is very important that schools start learning that the body and brain is growing so they need a little break from eight hours in a desk.  

Because schools do not understand this need, most young adults cannot wait to get to college, so they do not have to sit for so long and they get a break between classes. 

A kid’s brain cannot process so much information at once. 

According to many neuroscientists kids use selective attention when they are getting a lot of attention at once. Selective attention is when their attention focuses on what they think is important and their brain ignores what it thinks is unimportant. 

They do this by picking out many of the ‘important’ words in the flow of sentences and the things that stand out to their senses. Then they protect them from being overrun from other thing. 

Students can try to avoid interferences like text messages, but this is hard as a younger adult especially in a school system. 

Especially because when you are a young adult everything can be an interference. A rumbling tummy, a bad mood, or even something like being too cold. 

After sitting in a desk for so long you start getting bored and your brain starts looking for a distraction to keep you entertained. Something like doodling, playing on your phone, or annoying your teacher. 

These usually result in an interference with whatever a student needs to do in class. 

This problem could be solved if there were not long periods of time with kids sitting in a desks being bored. 

I know that teachers work hard on their plans and they try to plan every minute with as much learning as possible, but how much learning can they do if you have a child who is tired and bored in your class. 

Teachers have the most important job in the world.

They touch the hearts of children and inspire them to be better and become the future. However, teachers can not do that if the child is too tired, bored, or hungry to pay any attention. 

Without teachers we would not have anyone else. No doctors, lawyers, or welders. This is not the teacher’s fault. 

The school system wants eight hours in a desk with words spit at the kids hoping the kids absorb it, but kids do not absorb it like they want them to. 

It is so easy to do snacks during class, or a 20-minute nap break I mean how many minutes are wasted in school trying to get a child to focus anyways, so instead spend those minutes taking a nap. 

I mean you can walk into any high school or middle school class and say hey let’s go have a recess and they would all be stoked. 

Then when they get back into to class, they just ran out all their jitters, so they are ready to focus. It is a win-win.