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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeysie" data-source="post: 3793253" data-attributes="member: 51817">I would have lost a good deal of my fond childhood memories if I'd been limited to only an hour or half-hour of "screen time" per day. I spent a lot of fun and memorable hours watching all those fun 80s cartoons and using my computer and video consoles.Being a geek wouldn't be half as good without that. For one, years of my dad teaching me computers and my tinkering with them on my own has left me much more knowledgable about using them than most of the people I work with.For two, it's more fun. For instance, there's a fellow in my RP group who's a major geek who grew up without cable TV and video games. He's always kind of left out when me and one of the other fellows start remininscing about Transformers and Voltron and TMNT and all those old cartoons, and old NES games, and old computer games...Plus the times my dad and I spent watching things like Star Trek and Quantum Leap together are more of my fond memories of him, and sparked my interest in science fiction. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Of course, even though my parents didn't limit my TV time, I voluntarily spent time doing other things, too: playing outside with friends, reading (I've always been a major bookworm), playing board games with my dad and cards with my mom, playing with action figures...I do have my own share of social problems, but those come from being bullied as a kid, not from my recreational choices.I can understand not wanting your kid to spend all day watching TV or playing video games, but banning them completely or limiting it to only a few minutes a day seems a bit harsh. And in today's work climate, the more experience and comfort your kid has with computers, the better, IMHO.Peace & Luv, Liz</blockquote>

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