Another Movie Thread - Because We Love Them So

[Taem]

We are raising a generation of kids whose social skills are developed in a classroom, texting, or through social media.

But... critical thinking? How? Everything they are taught is predigested pablum up to the college graduate level.

"Concerns over safety are understandable but if children can't get out and explore the natural world, we run the risk of raising a generation of cotton-wool kids, whose experiences are defined by websites and computer games." -- Naturalist Stephen Moss, author of the family outdoor guide The Bumper Book Of Nature. By the time I was 12, I had been to the emergency room three times from my horse alone.

You pretty much just said what I said, however you left out the most important facet of this arrangement: Kids play video games rather than going outside <-- because [both] parents work more, AND parents prefer kids to stay safe at home rather than unsupervised outside <-- because economically, costs of everything has gone up to unsustainable levels for modern day comfort [the median level], rather because of ALL we have (cell phones, cable TV, ...cars), or because of greed raising the price of everything around us (or both) <-- because why? This is the root of the problem. How can you "fix" our society?

Taking away video games and TV won't fix it. It's been touched on in many, many threads by yourself and Pete numerous times... Can you guess what it is? Parents need to spend more time with their kids, time away from the TV, away from the video game systems, away from the cell phones. And kids will learn from this and start doing things outside and thinking for themselves, because (believe it or not) children imitate their parents, even more than they imitate their favorite sports stars from brain-washing commercials.

[THIS] whole post also touches bases on team sports; the more parents did things with their children (if they had time to), the less need for structured sports. Now don't get me wrong, a little structured sport once a season is good for the competition, but most parents, and I'm guilty myself, have their kids enrolled in multiple events during a season to keep them busy; and it's become the norm! If you don't enroll your kids in events, all their friends are doing them so there is nobody for your kids to hang out with. It's our society. Parent's, set a good example!