You can try to remember. You can't try to forget.

Have you ever realised that once you see or hear something, you do not have the ability to forget about it?

You can actively try to remember something. The opposite is not true. You cannot actively forget about something.

What's the implication of this?

Take a child watching a scary movie. Because they can't simply forget that experience, they have nightmares for the next few weeks. Sometimes years of their life.

The fact that information can have that sort of effect on our bodies, on our minds, means that the opposite is potentially true too. Good information, the right information, is also one-way. Once it's in, it shapes you.

So it's literally all about what information you let in.

What you choose to see. What you choose to hear. We do have a lot of choice in this area. We can apply filters towards our own lives. What applications we look at. What news sources we look at. What people we interact with.

Just simply not seeing something, or not hearing something, has a massive implication for what value of information we do or do not receive.

And we, as parents, have a massive responsibility to our children.

Our children have less mature minds than we do. They have less experience in this world. They don't process information as well as we do.

If we are struggling already as it is today to figure out what is real and not real, what chance is there for our children?

Have a think about it.