These kids cannot find their way across town without a voice telling them when to turn. The mental city map does not exist in their brain. That critical stage in their mental development never happens. We are raising a generation that will be rendered as helpless as infants if and when the power goes out and the gadgets become an ounce of plastic trash.
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Not only are these kids using smartphones as crutches for simple tasks, the damned things now contain their entire social lives. Those old sci-fi stories about people vegetating while the machines take over were pretty darned close to the mark.
-——These kids cannot find their way across town without a voice telling them when to turn. -——
Very true... My youngest son last girlfriend drove to school and back home. everyday by her navigation system....
You would think after a few days... Your brain would remember how to get there...
I asked her why.... She told me she was afraid of getting lost....
I kid you not....
If they could take a tour of my childhood, they would just die. I grew up on a small farm with my grandparents. My toys were books, marbles, cards, blocks, drawing paper, a sandbox, a swing, a bike, a field full of rocks, a corn-crib full of corn, some apple trees, the woods, the river, wildflowers, bales of hay...
We were poor but I look back and feel so, so lucky.