Editor:
In the last month I was at a soccer game for six-year-olds. A mother told me she has a large yard for her children to play in but she has a hard time getting them outside to play in it. Their outside activities consist of their team sports.
We talked about how video games are keeping our young ones inside for hours at a time. When our young ones go to school they hear how their friends are on different levels or are different characters in the video games and even the buying of items in the game put pressure on parents to give in to their children's demands.
Some of our young ones are playing online games with strangers. We don't know who these strangers are and yet we allow them in our homes for hours at a time talking and playing with our children.
Can we as adults encourage each other, even using peer pressure, to limit the time our young ones are playing these online games?
We as adults can talk of ways to help our young ones to work hard at school, to enjoy the reading of a book and to find ways to use our mind in creative ways both outside and inside our homes.
A. Knox
