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> This article exploits it, and commensurate skepticism is warranted. Sure, but empirical evidence tells me that my children are much happier after having play
by mcone 9y ago
> This article exploits it, and commensurate skepticism is warranted.
Sure, but empirical evidence tells me that my children are much happier after having played outside with their friends for an hour than they are after watching videos on YouTube. I can't just ignore that.
- e40 9y agoAnd what about the multitudes of children that are not outside playing because of being online? In the community where I live, there are very few kids outside. All my son has ever wanted to do is play online, multiplayer games. The idea of roaming the streets on a bike and playing in a park... that is completely foreign to him.
- rejschaap 9y agoThey are missing out
- graphitezepp 9y agoIt is going to take major cultural and societal change to make it so we interact with our technology in a healthy way.
- dionidium 9y agoI was born in 1980. There were kids in my generation who preferred video games to outside, too, but, for the most part, parents didn't allow this behavior. You have a say in what your child gets up to on a Saturday morning. It's not just up to him.
- unclebucknasty 9y agoTrue, but video games of that era eventually got boring; not to mention you had to coax your parents into finally buying you another vs downloading from an infinite library. I can remember my friends and I collectively getting bored of playing video games and deciding to go outside. At some point, most kids ended up outside, so there was a desire to go out and play. The only time I can remember my parents having to tell us to go outside is when we lazed around the house in our PJs too long on a non-school day. Today, the opposite is true. They want to be on their devices for both entertainment and social interaction. Yeah, parents have a say, but it's a constant fight.
- RikNieu 9y agoI don't have kids myself but can refer to my nieces. They have iPhones and access to the internet but they have limited internet time. Not limited in some sort of technological way, but their parents simply tell them they're not allowed to use the devices before 5pm during weekdays and they quite simply listen to their parents. Why don't other parents do this?
- tobltobs 9y agoSounds like he never did get the chance to learn what else he could want.
- kstenerud 9y agoAnd also near impossible to do because parents won't let them roam more than 100 feet away, let alone the 5+ miles I roamed as a kid.
- Kluny 9y agoWell, there's nobody out there and they're not allowed to go anywhere interesting anyway. It's not surprising.