Yep. This is a drawing that a friend of mine did and placed it within a children's playground. My feelings on new media, such as television, internet, video games etc. are pretty strong.
I believe that today parents have every right to be concerned with the new trend of having their child constantly being surrounded by some aspect of technology. Children are succumbed by new and "cool" technology and seem to always want to have the newest gadget on the market. I feel they are forgetting what it is like to even step outside.
For example, the little boy I nanny, on our very first day together, (he had just turned 6) he had spent 6 hours, (yes, really 6 hours) playing Pirates of the Caribbean play station game. Yet, when I asked him if he had ever gone mini golfing, fishing or to a water park, his answer was no to all of them. I couldn't BELIEVE that a 6 year old boy had never been mini golfing. So, from that day on, I now only allow a small time in the morning for video games/other technology and then for the rest of the day we go do various OUTSIDE activities. Together, he has now gone fishing, mini golfing and down a water slide.
This drawing portrays how many parents often just place their children in front of a T.V. or video game and then they don't have to worry about them. Essentially, technology is almost raising our children today! The fact that this drawing placed at an EMPTY playground also suggests that children again are more content sitting on the couch rather than going outside and being active. Technology is slowly becoming America's new parent, we just don't realize it yet...Scary?
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