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Re: OT: Children and video games

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 13:35
 --- Barry Garcia skrzypszy:

> I'm a big fan of limits. It does work. You just have to follow > through with what you say.
Absolutely. Whatever you decide, be consequent!
> I remember as a kid going out and playing hide and seek in the > neighborhood, or up to the local school to play on the playground, > making reservoirs in our sandy soil and flooding little villages > with a dam break). Or simply just hanging out with friends at > someone's house. I never see that with kids these days as they're > all shut up in their houses playing their Playstations and X-Boxes.
Yeah, yeah, the good old days! <dreams away in nostalgy> ... Of course, life wás different. Playstations and gaming computers simply did not exist, and the time between the TV programme started and bed time was not much more than one hour. Now, I'm the first to admit that I'm getting old and conservative, so I genuinely believe that many things were better then, but I am also realistic enough to understand that you can't just transplant your own childhood onto you children, even if you can mimic some of the circumstances. Jan ===== "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." Relay 10: http://steen.free.fr/relay10/ ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com