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Isn't this just the latest - "Think of the children!" We've had Reefer madness, Elvis' hips, satanic rock and roll played backwards, video-nasties, murder-simul

by goldcd 8y ago

Isn't this just the latest - "Think of the children!" We've had Reefer madness, Elvis' hips, satanic rock and roll played backwards, video-nasties, murder-simulator computer games - and all the rest of it. Every set of parents seems to look at what their children seem to mysteriously like - and determine it's harmful (accompanied by mixed scientific evidence). By no means am I simply saying that this means that there can't be an issue with screen-time - Simply that older generations have a long and ignoble history of "this type of stuff".

goldcd 8y ago
Or to look at it another way. I can't think of an example where we've greeted change with open arms. I presume somewhere back in history there's a parent monitoring their childs harpsichord time, or telling them to stop drawing on the cave walls and get out there to kill a real mammoth.
- diegoperini 8y ago
  That's actually hilarious! Too much cave wall time
  - krapp 8y ago
    Kids these days, with their fire don't know how good they have it. In my day, if it was cold, and it was always cold, you just beat something warm to death with your bare hands and ate your way inside. Built character.
C1sc0cat 8y ago
even going way back people worried about kids reading to many "trashy" novels - of course those novels are now part of the englit cannon
- goldcd 8y ago
  Yep - fiction wasn't what books were for. Books were for men to exchange serious knowledge. Start of the 19th century we had Austen knocking out chick lit, Shelley on a Euro-bender knocking out horror, then Dickens serialized gubbins selling pamphlets on the street etc etc
newsgremlin 8y ago
It feels like the word moderation doesn't exist anymore or has lost all meaning to people. Moderating kids is harder though, especially when other parents don't do so and thus that 'extreme' behavior becomes the norm or the standard for peers to live up to.

by goldcd 8y ago

goldcd 8y ago

Or to look at it another way. I can't think of an example where we've greeted change with open arms. I presume somewhere back in history there's a parent monitoring their childs harpsichord time, or telling them to stop drawing on the cave walls and get out there to kill a real mammoth.

diegoperini 8y ago
That's actually hilarious! Too much cave wall time
- krapp 8y ago
  Kids these days, with their fire don't know how good they have it. In my day, if it was cold, and it was always cold, you just beat something warm to death with your bare hands and ate your way inside. Built character.

C1sc0cat 8y ago

even going way back people worried about kids reading to many "trashy" novels - of course those novels are now part of the englit cannon

goldcd 8y ago
Yep - fiction wasn't what books were for. Books were for men to exchange serious knowledge. Start of the 19th century we had Austen knocking out chick lit, Shelley on a Euro-bender knocking out horror, then Dickens serialized gubbins selling pamphlets on the street etc etc

newsgremlin 8y ago

It feels like the word moderation doesn't exist anymore or has lost all meaning to people. Moderating kids is harder though, especially when other parents don't do so and thus that 'extreme' behavior becomes the norm or the standard for peers to live up to.