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Originally Posted by legion
My kids are 0, 2, and 6. They don't have any electronics of their own. The older two maybe get to borrow a device for an hour once a month.
When we go to restaurants, they have to do crazy stuff like talk and color. My older one has taken to word searches.
We play "I spy" on car trips...but we do have a DVD player (mostly for when we want them to calm down and nap). My 2-year-old is obsessed with finding train tracks.
My kids play outside every day the weather permits it. Today my six-year-old was begging me to let him clean dirt off of a tree stump (I kid you not).
The way I see it, you don't reminisce about your high score in Angry Birds with your kids...
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While being able to step back and enjoy the analog lifestyle is probably healthy, do you ever wonder if you're putting your kids behind their peers? Jobs of tomorrow will be heavily tech-centric. Being adept at using computers and other technology because they are second nature to those using them since young will be a marketable skill (already is).
My kids all have various electronic devices, and ability to use most of them (at 10, my son is already programming games). I don't really see their world as "worse" than ours, only different. Having all the world's knowledge at your fingertips is empowering.