Children need to be bored, so I'm smashing the Wii

telegraph.co.uk

2 pointsanuleczka2 comments

(Commenting didn't seem to want to work on the site, so I'll comment here.)

Don't blame video games for discouraging reading; blame yourselves for getting the wrong video games. I grew up on Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, Civilization, etc. These involved massive amounts of reading, all of which was fun because it let me discover worlds that I was able to interact with.

You can't force them to play those games; they want to play the games their friends are playing... basically guitar hero

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