(December 9, 2014 at 12:44 pm)robvalue Wrote: Another reason parenting is so bad in my opinion is the ability of technology to keep your kid quiet. I think parents are allowing their children to stare at a screen all day from a very early age because it's the path of least resistance. But then they are not learning good social skills, are being educated more by online rubbish than their parents, and the parents often have no idea what they are viewing.
Ignorance is not an excuse, parents. If your kid is spending 8 hours a day on the internet, it's about time you took a class in it and understood what it was. (I'm not aiming that at parents on this board, you all seem like very sensible people. Plus, like, you're on the internet)
Hear, hear. When my son was younger, we certainly taught him about the Internet, but his time online was restricted, and monitored, and I made sure to leaven it with outdoor, physical activites -- hiking, cycling, and so on. He played Pop Warner football, too.
He's 17 now, is in a relationship with a nice gal for almost a year, pulling As and Bs in a magnet school that is in the top 500 high schools in America (there are 18,000 of them), and makes his parents proud.
