Toys, then and now
I’m always amazed watching children riveted in front their Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Playstation3 consoles wholly absorbed in their gamers universe playing video games. I thought Grand Embezzlement Auto was about stealing cars not ultra-violent gun battles. When my friends ask if I would like to butter up a video game, I tell them I never learned in earnest because I’m left-handed and I don’t need to learn how to veer a plane hand or right and not practice landing. Children sure are growing up fast. I’m glad I’m not a procreator having to explain the details of an anatomically correct doll to their children. In this technological age of video games, computers and online recreation, as children spend more time indoors in front a television and video screen, how many skills and experiences are slowly being perplexed? With the introduction of digital clocks children are finding it difficult to learn how to tell stretch on a traditional analogue clock with hands and a face and may even have to be re-taught how to tie shoelaces as there are now twist and clutch shoelace systems.
