There is considerable alarm about the destructive impact of "screens" on children. The fear is that kids loose the skills and desire to engage with the real world. The issue is extremely serious, impacts kids globally and across cultures. If it were true, finding a solution would be imperative. One of the simplest attempts to find a solution would be that kids are helped to immerse themselves in reality. Here reality is symbolized by the sea, the fishing, the nightfall, the "magic bucket". The hope is that reality can teach silent life lessons that humans are growing unable to onpass.
There is considerable and growing alarm in many quarters about the possible destructuve impact of ''screens'' on children. Research is recent and complex but, to sum up,the fear is that th eextensive use of screens widespread in our society can result in a dramatic detachment from reality. That, particularly young kids whose minds and bodies are still growing, may loose the skills, abilities and desire needed to engage with the real world, outside them, If this were true, it would be quite tragic. Kids would be robbed of their most precious existential ability. The problem is urgent and global, cutting across countries and cultures. It is also quite difficult to photograph.
''The Magic Bucket'' is an attempt to illustrate it through one possible antidote. One of the simplest and most obvious would be to encorage kids, push them to immerse themselves in reality. Here the sea is the symblol of that reality. The sea, in Sicily. Diving, fishing, contemplating the catch at nightfall before letting the creature free. Children are perfectly capable to engage with reality, even with its dangers, limits, timings. And it is crucial they do, Now more than ever.
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