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Yeah, but a lot of this comes down to parents who should really monitor what
their children are doing and make sure they don't do too much of one thing -
be it watch TV, play video games or even read books or play with lego.
Video games have an advantage over board games in that you can play them
when no-one else is willing to play a game with you (It's one of the reasons
I play video games - I have a large collection of board games, but my
friends rarely have time to come over and play). I also think playing a
Video Game is better than just watching a TV program, as at least with the
game you are learning skills and solving puzzles.
> - Food. Remember when there wasn't a big M on every corner, and you couldn't
> have sweets any time you wanted to?
Most children I know now can't have sweets whenever they want to.
> - Books. Remember those? Night after night, hiding your torch under the
> covers to find out what would happen to the hero in the end.
Yep - it's funny how I now need to wear glasses :) Of course, another
thing to blame for this is how many parents now read stories to their
children instead of just directing to the TV set?
> And that also brings me to imagination. I remember when we'd hammer some
> sticks together to make guns.
Or just two fingers. Or we built them out of lego bricks (Note to kids
reading - don't fight with swords made out of lego - you get one good swing
and that's it :( ). Of course you could just be a responsible parents and
ban your children from owning toy guns. At which point they will then go and
make them out of stick/fingers or lego bricks.
> Remember when horror movies were scary because of what you didn't see?
Ummm. No - I grew up in the eighties, so I remember watching mostly
splatter movies. Scared the willies out of me. I still get scared by
American Werewolf in London as my friend's parents took us to see it at the
drive-in. We were 10 years old...
> Look at the Mummy. I can only laugh at the special effects.
The Mummy's not really a horror movie though, it's more in the style of
Indiana Jones (And it's a fun film).
> They're now turning my favorite children's books into movies and I refuse to >go see them. I'd rather remember what things looked like in my mind.....
An idea could be to make your child read the book before taking them to
see the movie. That way they'd start realising that the book was better (in
99% of the cases anyway - sometimes a movie comes along that is better than
the book)
> (because like in music nobody can come up with anything new)
Musicians come up with new stuff all the time - but the record labels
deem it as 'not popular' or can't figure out how to market it so it doesn't
ever make it into the mainstream. Boo :(
Steve
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| "Bob Gomez" <kukumba@aol.com> wrote in message news:H83wI4.56M@lugnet.com... <snip> I guess some will say that the market has changed and kids today don't have the attention span that they used to. </snip> I'm getting a bit tired of hearing this (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic)
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