Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Screen time

So sometimes just writing about it makes me think about it more. I've been going over in my mind what Sandra Dodd would say to my post and I know I would have been slammmmmmmmmmed into the ground. I know she would have said something along the lines of "what else do you have going on in the house, what else is there to do, how are they being engaged....outside of the puter?" And as I type this the passwords have been off for a few days and the seem more open to moving on to other things. Farmville is a new passion, which in some weird way seems more worthwhile than prison inmates fighting and pooping/peeing/puking on each other, and I'm not kidding, that was one game they were playing. Reader comments are totally valid and have made their way into my paradigm....I really do not wish to make computers a forbidden fruit and I *do* see them quitting on their own....and setting their own boundaries....

2 comments:

Ronnie said...

This made me chuckle. I hear Sandra's voice in my head, too. :-)

Alison said...

Prison inmate games? Ewww, I think I wouldn't let my kids play that... Farmville sounds waaay better! It just makes me think about social psych experiments into prison-based behaviours, like Phillip Zimbardo's.