Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Mary Am Shah reports in the Toronto Sun that 26-year-old Blair McMillan has banned any technology in his house post-1986, the year he and his girlfriend Morgan were born. They're doing it because their kids – Trey, 5, and Denton, 2 – wouldn't look up from their parents' iPhones and iPads long enough to kick a ball around the backyard. 'That's kind of when it hit me because I'm like, wow, when I was a kid, I lived outside,' says Blair adding that now 'we're parenting our kids the same way we were parented for a year just to see what it's like.' The McMillans do their banking in person instead of online. They develop rolls of film for $20 each instead of Instagramming their sons' antics. They recently traveled across the United States using paper maps and entertaining their screaming kids with coloring books and stickers, passing car after car with TVs embedded in the headrests and content infants seated in the back. Their plan is to continue living like it's 1986 until April 2014. Morgan, who admits she thought her boyfriend was 'crazy,' now devours books to pass the time and only uses a computer at work. 'I remember the day before we started this, I was a wreck and I was like I can't believe I have to delete my Facebook!' Blair originally experienced a form of phantom pain for the first few days after giving up his cellphone. 'The strangest thing without having a cellphone is that I could almost feel my pocket vibrating and I wanted to check my pocket.' Still Morgan says the change has been good for their family's spirit. 'We're just closer, there's more talking,'"

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/. is news for Amishes

[AchilleTalon]

/. is becoming a news for Amishes website with this kind of news.

Re:You should get an unabridged dictionary

[Zero__Kelvin]

"Or you could just, you know, not be a jackass and try to make yourself look smart by attacking the form rather than the message."

Or you could, you know, not be an idiot and realize that I was attacking the message. The message is that their kids don't need technology; they'd do just as well fishing with dad. It was a stupid message at best.

"Goes double because you never know, the person making a post may not speak English as their primary, or even secondary, language."

So would that make it less desirable to get all their education in English from dad rather than having access to proper information, or less?

" Their understanding of the language may be incorrect and incomplete, but that does not mean that their ideas have less merit."

No. I totally agree. I suppose that is why I never stated or implied any such thing. It is the fact that the idea has no merit that makes it have less merit.

" Like I said, buy yourself a copy of the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary or Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. You'll find catched in there. It isn't modern usage,"

Er, ah .. no. The joke is you. You don't seem to be bright enough to get the point. The point is that if you cut your children of from modern advancements, then they will not have access to current information. Using an outdated form of expression hardly counters that point, now, does it.