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Blaming Technology Yet Again
Topic Started: Jul 27 2007, 08:19 AM (168 Views)
Arctic Phoenix
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19983210/wid/11915829?gt1=10150

I love how people blame technology for "ruining" kids instead of offering tips to parents to balance it with things such a physical activity and stuff. Kids are spending so much time on the internet and video games usually because parents let them. Can technology be bad for our kids? To a degree yes, but if people, both parents and adults in general, were able to balance out and moderate time with technology, then we wouldn't have articles like this.
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vix
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Run you clever boy and remember...

Technology isn't ruining kids completely. It's the parent's letting 10year olds have cell phones, tv's in their rooms, computer's in their rooms, etc. It's definitely half and half, half parent's/kid's faults and half technology's fault too.

There's a great article in the new PSM about this Psychologist who uses videogames as part of his treatment for kids with anger issues, ADD, and some other issues. It's a great read.

Finally someone showing the gaming can actually help those that are troubled instead of turning them into so-called monsters.
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kickstart
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There will always be new technology and there will always be brats. It's just easy to draw a line from one to the other and say that must be the cause. Everyone used to complain about how much television the average person watched every day, now it's the internet and video games that are evil :rolleyes
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Jag
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Not to take anything away from the discussion at hand, but that is obviously a humor article casually lampooning the disparities between when we were kids and kids nowadays. Much the same is done all the time for every generational gap.

What I'm trying to say is, it just sounds like you're getting angry at somebody who was trying to be funny.
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fleacollar


I agree with Jag.

No use getting angry.
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Arctic Phoenix
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I wasn't getting angry, sorry if it came off that I did. I just wanted to talk about this and see what others thought.
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The Real Prince
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I hate how kids always see this stuff and think they can do it like the guy who shot a police officer stole his car and went to the police station and graffiti'd grove street for life this guy was 15 and he wasn't mature enough to know he would be throwing his life I guess they see all these gangs and think thats the life but they don't see behind the gangbanging the poverty the death and the day they end up dead on the street,people got to grow up and start taking resposibility for themselves instead of blaming it on everybody else
P.S Peace out
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