Nov 25, 2005 09:36
There I am on Amazon.com, doing a little research for the website I'm building for my gaming class. Yes, I am taking a class that requires 10+ hours per week of gaming. GTA, EverQuest, Mario, whatever. But I digress.
Check out this review I found about the children-specific handheld V-Smile console.
My daughter loves her V Smile Pocket! She is only 3 1/2 & she plays it great. There are 2 settings for difficulty. Easy & difficult. She didn't get into playing the game until she was naughty & I grounded her from TV for the whole day. She then picked up the V Smile Pocket and started playing it. At first she was getting fustrated but she kept on playing and quickly she learned how the buttons worked. She loves it!
Whoa, whoa. Back up. She was naughty and you grounded her from TV. And she's three and a half. But then you let her play what is essentially video games, since TV programs like Seasame Street or Dora the Explorer are bad... Then again, with a parental review like this one, the kid is probably watching Real World on MTV.
Oh lord. Some people shouldn't breed. It makes me want to have children, raise them to be well-rounded and well educated, and be the type of child who eats the ones that Darwin should have taken care of alive.
I take that back.
Or do ?
(And for reference, I think Seasame Street and Dora the Explorer are actually very good shows for young children, teaching them about life in general, not just the ABCs. But it's not like you cared anyways.)