Are you destroying your child's imagination?

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Television video and games constant supervision.

And it's constant supervision our next guest is -- and countless other distractions have become hallmarks of our childhood today so could new trends in child rearing actually be just trying our kids' imaginations joining us right.

Right out of Anthony Aslan the author of a new really interesting but called -- ways to destroy the imagination of your child.

Actually I was I was flipping through this it's really -- It's -- like tough love for parents in a way.

-- -- couple -- parents actually.

Finger in the guy for most of what we do to children it is these days in our schools and our homes.

So some of the things you talk about keeping children indoors too often never leaving children to themselves take those two and indicted -- forests.

Although we are -- well first of all we do want to destroy the imaginations of our children otherwise our economy would collapse because people would stop buying things they don't need.

And don't really even enjoy.

But -- If you you can't let your kid be outside because a single blade of grass out there -- more wondrous object then anything that the cable see on the screen.

In in a month's time of viewing television and video games and all those other things have absolutely you've got to keep him indoors.

Also you say a replacement of fairy tales with cliches and fat.

Cutting heroes like decides how to -- -- -- -- mean.

We've done a job on fairy tales in our and our schools last several years right I mean last forty years you can't have fairy tales because their appeals are based on.

What every culture really knows about human beings it's it's archetype -- list.

It's it's natural human knowledge but we don't want that because that really taps into the imagination.

So instead we got to replace it with.

We've.

Stories about whoever happens to be politically favored at the moment this this is the greens the child and -- -- you know.

Yeah holiday wind from the holiday politics.

Called ten -- -- imagination -- -- Anthony Aslan thanks for joining us today thanks -- thank -- -- -- of this with a some breaking news we've had.

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