What is your take on youth and technology? Is it harming the upcoming generations?
February 1st, 2009
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Well we have all been hearing things on the news about children and obesity. Some blame it on the food where eating, some blame it on technology by saying that comuters and video games are taking up most childrens idle time not leaving them to want to go outside and play. They call the younger generation “couch potatoes”.
Well we have all been hearing things on the news about children and obesity. Some blame it on the food where eating, some blame it on technology by saying that comuters and video games are taking up most childrens idle time not leaving them to want to go outside and play. They call the younger generation “couch potatoes”.
They blame it on our up bringing and even go as far as to suggest because more women are geared towards their careers and not family that it is demeaning the value of a healthy lifesytle in children. I.e. women are no longer at home cooking good meals and instead grabbing fast food on the way home. That dad’s no longer play catch in the front yard and instead teach their son’s to play video games… They are saying that morals are not found in the common home and that parents are no longer raising out kids and technology is stepping in a taking their place.
They blame all the violence, *** and profanity found in younger generations on technology.
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I think it is awfully simplistic to simply lay the blame for our children’s health at the feet of the video game industry and computer technology.
Where are the parents in all of this? It appears they are nothing more than pathetic enablers. I fully realize that today’s families are markedly different from those of my childhood. I don’t think it’s a good enough excuse to just capitulate on all of our authority and responsibility.
It seems like too many of today’s parents are trying too hard to do all the things they should be ignoring and ignoring all the things they should be doing. There is just no excuse for adolescent obesity and video/computer addiction–not to the widespread degree we are seeing today.
Parents have GOT to care enough about their kids to get them to eat right and be active. They cannot put their careers second to their children’s well-being. Their children’s present and future happiness absolutely depend on it.