My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.
When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.
I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.
I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.
My children, twins who are three years old, they're awful creatures right now.
My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.
I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'
Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.
Watching my kids grow up made me realize that they would never know a world or a time without the Internet.
Children reinvent your world for you.