Warning: Real-life parenting experience follows - slashdotters who are unlikely to date, let alone have children may want to scroll past....
I have 3 kids - 2 of whom are old enough to watch tv. Oldest is 5, middle is 3 and they used to watch on average around 4 hours of tv a day. I was uncomfortable with how much they watched but figured I wasn't the one at home with them all day so I daren't raise it with her....
My wife however, got sick of tantrums, fights etc and decided to remove the TV. Not just turn it off - REMOVE it from the room - it now sits in our bedroom under a blanket. This was 3 weeks ago.
What happened? Nuclear war? Nope - the opposite, the kids whined off and on for a week and then forgot about it. They are both more pleasant to be around - less tantrums, use their imaginations more, play better together and have vastly improved with their reading, drawing and creative play. We're loving it - they get one movie a week as a treat and get to wach it on Friday nights with pizza. TV, DVD's etc are now viewed as a big deal and they enjoy them more.
We're sold - I don't even miss the stupid thing and I'm convinced our kids are better off for it.
True - man I just went to Google and all I saw wa a bunch of search stuff and some ads - I say we bring that sucker down, it's definitely just wasting people's time
In terms of portability, Psion's are about as portable as this phone.
The trouble with some devices is that they can't decide if they'll be a phone, pda, or mini laptop. When something tries to 'do it all', they generally fail dismally. My old manager had a 'small' Psion and swore by it, but the thing was so damn clunky and awkward you rarely saw him actually using it.
Palm did one thing (pda), did it well, and it remains to be seen IMO that they 'failed'.
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I have 3 kids - 2 of whom are old enough to watch tv. Oldest is 5, middle is 3 and they used to watch on average around 4 hours of tv a day. I was uncomfortable with how much they watched but figured I wasn't the one at home with them all day so I daren't raise it with her....
My wife however, got sick of tantrums, fights etc and decided to remove the TV. Not just turn it off - REMOVE it from the room - it now sits in our bedroom under a blanket. This was 3 weeks ago.
What happened? Nuclear war? Nope - the opposite, the kids whined off and on for a week and then forgot about it. They are both more pleasant to be around - less tantrums, use their imaginations more, play better together and have vastly improved with their reading, drawing and creative play. We're loving it - they get one movie a week as a treat and get to wach it on Friday nights with pizza. TV, DVD's etc are now viewed as a big deal and they enjoy them more.
We're sold - I don't even miss the stupid thing and I'm convinced our kids are better off for it.
(No we're not Amish)
I find it appalling that the Thai government are going to 'quality test' and 'debug' children.
Someone call the UN.
True - man I just went to Google and all I saw wa a bunch of search stuff and some ads - I say we bring that sucker down, it's definitely just wasting people's time
In terms of portability, Psion's are about as portable as this phone. The trouble with some devices is that they can't decide if they'll be a phone, pda, or mini laptop. When something tries to 'do it all', they generally fail dismally. My old manager had a 'small' Psion and swore by it, but the thing was so damn clunky and awkward you rarely saw him actually using it. Palm did one thing (pda), did it well, and it remains to be seen IMO that they 'failed'.
do they remove all the IE code from the OS? And if so, where do I sign up?
For our metric viewers, how much is a sh*t-ton (in kg's)?