Re: OT: Children and video games

 --- 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

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