Boys and their Toys

I think that video games have become the main entertainment medium of choice for youths. The problem I see with this is that they are starting at such an early age, I have to wonder and worry about their exposure to games.

I also worry about how it will affect important skills such as literacy, language and imagination, because games are not yet an effective tool for teaching those skills. I had quite an imagination as a child, and I believe it was in no small part due to the influence of reading and playing with toys. Games, especially have always been a way of training kids, although this was supplanted at the start of the industrial revolution, when public schooling became the way to train children for factory life. If one examines the toys and games of those living on farms during the same era, one will find that the toys and games played train them for doing farm chores.