Our society has blindly developed a cavalier & overzealous emphasis on pushing the digital world on kids with no regard for their need to first develop social skills and learn to interact & thrive in the real world.

And it’s not just computers. It’s the whole media-saturated culture. We’re mindlessly feeding into some of the biggest childhood problems by fostering a whole set of detrimental expectations. Kids today anticipate (and therfore increasingly demand) constant exposure to entertainment. They crave immediate gratification of instant-on DVDs, where they can re-watch their same favorite 12 minutes out of a movie. They cannot tolerate even a 10-minute car ride to the grocery store without an MP3 player or portable game system. They “text” instead of talk. In short, I think we’re literally creating the breeding grounds for ADD and the like.