I have conflicting feelings about this. On the one hand, giving entertainment screens to children has the potential to create all kinds of bad habits. On the

I have conflicting feelings about this. On the one hand, giving entertainment screens to children has the potential to create all kinds of bad habits. On the other, I spent hours upon hours teaching myself to program on my Atari ST, plus learning about how computers work from it, and nowadays I've made a pretty good living from my passion for IT. (That's not to say that I didn't also spend many, many hours gaming, or generally wasting time.) As with most things in life, I think we can only say that the extreme ends are unlikely to be good, and the answer lies somewhere in the middle.