Hmmm. I'd want a bit more professional feedback on this, but it has a certain degree of gut plausibility.
Reshared post from +George Wiman
"We quickly learned after further testing, that most of the children in the classroom had poor core strength and balance. In fact, we tested a few other classrooms and found that when compared to children from the early 1980s, only one out of twelve children had normal strength and balance. Only one! Oh my goodness, I thought to myself. These children need to move!"
Why so many kids can’t sit still in school today
A pediatric occupational therapist says schools keep kids in their chairs far too long.
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It certainly goes along with what I've seen as a parent. If my homeschooled boy isn't given breaks to go run around in every hour or so, he stops being able to pay attention in favor of squirming.
Of course, that's just school. On weekends, he'll watch YouTube for two or three hours straight before announcing he's going outside.
What is the average length of the YouTube videos he watches? Is it a two or three hour video? Or dozens of much shorter videos?
+George Wiman And that is probably the key. Most of them are ten to fifteen minutes and done in an aggressively attention-grabbing style. They really are easier to pay attention to than workbooks, lectures, and the average documentary.
Sitting still and paying attention is exhausting. Even as a (relatively) low-energy adult, I find by the end of a day of business meetings (even ones that have had break hourly), my concentration is shot and I have to get up and stand at the back of the room to watch just to get the antsiness out. I can't imagine how it is for kids in school these days. (The whole physiological development needs thing aside.)