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Limiting Your Child’s Fire Time: A Guide for Concerned Paleolithic Parents

by fezz on 7/30/19, 6:33 PM with 1 comments

• by apo on 7/30/19, 6:56 PM

  > In the end, just remember that fire, like most innovations, is both a blessing and a curse. Sure, it’s made our lives easier, our survival likelier, and will probably lead to the greatest evolutionary paradigm shift in human history. But it’s also dangerous, destructive, and, yes, possibly infested with demonic forces that wish us ill.

  Reminds me of a quote to the effect of "I'm not sure what the future holds, but I know I won't approve."

  I wonder what parents 100 years from now will have to say about today's handwringing over computer time.

  On the one hand, it may seem impossible that a parent would deliberately subject a child to such overt sabotage of future professional prospects.

  On the other hand, future parents may be astonished at how much leeway kids today have with respect to information devices - in much the same way that today's new parents can barely believe there was a time when kids walked and rode bikes to school on their own, and generally ran around the neighborhood more or less unsupervised.