{"id":609,"date":"2012-06-05T05:26:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T12:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=609"},"modified":"2018-02-01T00:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:49:04","slug":"why-daydreaming-isnt-a-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/06\/05\/why-daydreaming-isnt-a-waste-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Daydreaming Isn\u2019t a Waste of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MindShift Blog
\nJune 4, 2012
\nWritten By: Ann Murphy Paul<\/p>\n

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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

Yet this kind of introspection is crucial to our mental health, to our relationships, and to our emotional and moral development. And it promotes the skill parents and teachers care so much about: the capacity to focus on the world outside our heads.<\/p>\n

Read more about the benefits of daydreaming<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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