We don’t let kids go outside, then put the world in their pocket. We teach them to learn the test, and how to do new math. It is a different world for these kids. Just like it was a different world for us than how our parents grew up.
See, how I plan to sort this out with my own kids (once I have any, of course) is to tell them that, sure, they can have a cell phone/mobile device…they just have pay for it (and all related upkeep supporting it) themselves.
Won’t necessarily solve the problem entirely, of course, but it’ll be a helpful deterrent, and it’ll at least keep their faces visible for a larger portion of their childhood.
sueamarlucan“feeding the livestock” You are not aware that for most of the US population, owning livestock (defined as any animal other than dogs or cats kept indoors) is in itself a crime, enforced by police and/or the original developers’ board of tyranny?
I grew up on books and radio … television came later and I didn’t like it as much. The vivid images that books and radio programs inspired were mine and nobody else’s. The canned images of Matt Dillon and the Lone Ranger, for example, on television were someone else’s and a real disappoint to me … they weren’t supposed to look like that!I feel sorry for people that haven’t had that experience. Today’s “Words Please” stories on Reddit and podcasts like Serial have some of that flavor – where you use your imagination to “see” the details – but I don’t know if they appeal to kids. The dictionary and encyclopedia were trusted sources and not an opinion disguised as factual data. It’s becoming very hard to research some facts that politician’s want to be ambiguous when they are not. It’s not impossible, just an extra step to vet the sources.
King_Shark almost 8 years ago
Dream on. They don’t even look up from their screens while crossing the street!
Combatcarl almost 8 years ago
The further erosion of society….
SHAKENDOWN almost 8 years ago
Start shopping all sales now from back to school to Christmas.
Mr. Blawt almost 8 years ago
We don’t let kids go outside, then put the world in their pocket. We teach them to learn the test, and how to do new math. It is a different world for these kids. Just like it was a different world for us than how our parents grew up.
Kip W almost 8 years ago
And they all listen to that degenerate bebop ragtime jazz.
scyphi26 almost 8 years ago
See, how I plan to sort this out with my own kids (once I have any, of course) is to tell them that, sure, they can have a cell phone/mobile device…they just have pay for it (and all related upkeep supporting it) themselves.
Won’t necessarily solve the problem entirely, of course, but it’ll be a helpful deterrent, and it’ll at least keep their faces visible for a larger portion of their childhood.
hippogriff almost 8 years ago
sueamarlucan“feeding the livestock” You are not aware that for most of the US population, owning livestock (defined as any animal other than dogs or cats kept indoors) is in itself a crime, enforced by police and/or the original developers’ board of tyranny?
superposition almost 8 years ago
I grew up on books and radio … television came later and I didn’t like it as much. The vivid images that books and radio programs inspired were mine and nobody else’s. The canned images of Matt Dillon and the Lone Ranger, for example, on television were someone else’s and a real disappoint to me … they weren’t supposed to look like that!I feel sorry for people that haven’t had that experience. Today’s “Words Please” stories on Reddit and podcasts like Serial have some of that flavor – where you use your imagination to “see” the details – but I don’t know if they appeal to kids. The dictionary and encyclopedia were trusted sources and not an opinion disguised as factual data. It’s becoming very hard to research some facts that politician’s want to be ambiguous when they are not. It’s not impossible, just an extra step to vet the sources.
hippogriff almost 8 years ago
superpositionActually, I thought Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels did a very credible job of matching the radio and print images.
OmqR-IV.0 almost 8 years ago
Pfft. I have enough trouble as it is getting my kid’s nose out a book.
This is how my kid watches TV: