Why Daydreaming Isn’t a Waste of Time | gpmt | Scoop.it
Parents and teachers expend a lot of energy getting kids to pay attention, concentrate, and focus on the task in front of them.

"What adults don’t do, according to University of Southern California education professor Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, is teach children the value of the more diffuse mental activity that characterizes our inner lives: daydreaming, remembering, reflecting."

Read on to learn more about how "a lack of time to daydream may ...hamper kids' capacity to pay attention when they need to."


Via Beth Dichter