Kids...Whatsamatter with kids today?
The social psychologists have again discovered what most of us have known for a generation now.
All piano lessons and Nintendo make Markie a dull boy.
What I've seen for many years now is two extremes: The over programmed kid who is SUV'd from ballet to math camp to tennis vs. the abandoned to the TV, playstation cyber-dork.
What we see so little of these days are kids simply running around the neighbourhood, making up their own melodramas as they go.
The technologies which are supposed to aid communication - the cellphone is the worst example - are in fact isolating people.
The so-called "family room" is actually the Anti-Family Room. It is a place for everyone to watch TV and disappear up their own backside.
3 comments:
exactly. well put David, part of the reason I am enjoying living where we are now in a semi-rural area on vancouver island. I feel safe enough to let my three boys out into the neighborhood and they have found a number of friends, those other parents are still working on the trust needed to allow their own children out...but we are working on it.
The television is still something of an enemy to real learning and self-sufficient 'fun'. There are times I want to throw it out, then other times, when one of the boys is injured that I am glad we have some videos (cable is not connected) that can still permit my boy to rest (which not resting caused the injury in the first place).
David,
You wrote:
. . . The technologies which are supposed to aid communication - the cellphone is the worst example - are in fact isolating people.
With all due respect, doesn't a computer/blog fall under this description?
Not that we need to be consistent here!
I wrote at some length the other day about the magic of computers and the access to worldwide information and knowledge.
And, yes, computers and blogs DO connect people.
But they are also isolating.
How many spousal partners, parents and children disappear from one another into their closed cyber systems?
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