Concentration

Concentration is important if we are to succeed at anything in life.  My family and I live in on of the best public school district in New York.  When I got married with my wife, we decided to have children.  Making a baby is the day part, raising  the child is when the difficulties show up.  Someone once said to me, "small children equal small problem, big children equal big problems".  As we as a race move forward into the future life becomes ever more difficult.  People are competing more for the same limited positions in the work force.

My wife and I, are the first from our families to get a university education.  Whatever we managed to do until know is satisfactory because we had absolutely no parental help.  Our parents did not even manage to finish high school .  My parents had completed the sixth grade.  The came from Greece and when they were growing up it was a time of war  (World War II).  Greece was plundered and pillaged, most of the people were just worried about food and education was secondary.

Today children in the have more than those of the generation our parents came from.   All they need to do is to focus on, is what they would like to do with them selves in the future.  Time passes unbelievably fast and before you know it the future is here and now.  The modern household have every modern convenience and technology available and there at two or three of each.  My sons were taught since they were babies that technology is your friend is you use it right and do not let it dominate your life.  If the tools that are supposed to make our life easy and fun become addictive and allow a person to neglect other parts of their life, then limits have to be set.  

Think about what you want to do in  life and concentrate on achieving your goal.  Every worth something take time and concentration.  When it comes to study time children will do everything but study.  There choices to be made.  Do more work and concentrate on and in school and be what you want.    Do not allow yourself to be distracted often. 

When a student sets limits on the video gaming part of their life, hopefully other more important parts of their life will not suffer.  For me what ever you do in life should give you something in return.  When you put money in the bank, there is interest paid in return.  Every transaction in life involves a give and take.

Why have children if you are not going to try your best to raise them to be better than you.  Life has an infinite number of distractions.  If you want to be a star student and you want your gases to be as high as they can be then you must concentrate on your study time.  More concentration equals better grades and in turn results in more choices for  better universities and better choices for careers.  Before you do something think about what will be the return and if the time you investing is worth the return.