Everybody panic! It's another "media rapes children" scare! The good old Telegraph, not one to publish a story with an anti-videogame bent, has brought word that British two-year-olds are developing "speech problems" thanks to TV and game addiction.
A nationwide screening program is being considered in the UK to find out more about these speech problems, which "experts" are now saying could be more widespread than dyslexia and autism. As well as videogames, other proposed courses are social deprivation, the decline of the "traditional British mealtime" and, surprisingly, poor childcare. Yes, for once the actual parenting might be considered.
And parenting, or lack thereof, is of course the root problem with most childhood issues. I mean, what is a two-year-old doing even playing videogames, let alone to the kind of extent that one could classify as addiction? It's no secret that the average Brit is growing up stupider than a spongecake bicycle, with testing standards failing, youth crime rising and parents being too frightened/lazy to do something about it.
But it's being observed now that some two-year-olds don't even know their own name. Sorry, but you don't get that stupid from playing videogames. You get that stupid from having moron chav parents who only squirted you out so they could claim extra money on their welfare checks.
[Via GoNintendo]
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5:30 PM on 01.03.2009
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haha, stupider?!
great piece Jim!
quoted for truth
And I feel a little better because of it.
inbreeding =/= lower class.
Don't talk such crap.
he just pissed me off, being working class i found it insulting.
''The lower class fuck anything that won't put up a fight.''
nope.
I'm as working class as they come, mate. I'm taking the piss. I only mean MOST of the lower class fuck all the time. Intelligent poor people know they can't afford to squirt out two babies a year.
If a child is not in full conversation with someone else, learning new words, experimenting with sentences, that sort, they're not going to be as fluent as another kid who does.
I'm not sure it was such an issue in the days of Cassette tape games, since there were a lot of words to make up for lack of graphics.
You get the same idiot kids if you think the TV is the ideal babysitter.
Parents just don't get enough blame these days. Mainly because if they did, nobody would be up for re-election.