Kids ‘n’ Computers –the other side">

Kids ‘n’ Computers –the other side

“NEW YORK (AP) — Amanda Cunningham started her daughter on computers at 2 1/2 with “Reader Rabbit” software and Web sites like Sesame Street. Like any parent, she was proud Madeline could master the mouse so young.

But Cunningham soon realized Madeline, now 4, wasn’t really learning anything. She just kept clicking, dragging and playing the same games over and over. Now, she’s in no rush to get her 1-year-old son, Liam, on computers or the Internet.”

Oh huzzah, huzzah!! Finally, a mother who has an understanding of the interaction between young children and the Internet. And let’s carry this a little further. Is it just coincidence that ADD has become such a forefront issue so relatively recently when we seem to have gone 220 or so years without really noticing it? Bad diagnosticians? Or could it be that a child needs to learn how to concentrate and that sitting a kid in front of the flashing, changing screens of the Internet doesn’t allow that to happen?