My kids play on the computer all day (games/netflix/youtube) unless I stop them. I'm seriously worried about them getting carpal tunnel, or posture issues. I constantly nag them to take breaks and do something outside, but generally just let them do as they please, since they are at daycare / school all day. The weekends though are bad, I will force them to do something else if they have a marathon five hour session. What do you guys do? When I was a kid I was free to use the computer as much as i wanted, but the options sucked compared to today, so it was self regulating, you just got bored and went outside faster. Kids don't get bored anymore.
Happily, there's only 24 hours a day; that's the hard limit :-)<p>The only way out is to have more interesting outdoor activities: horse, skydiving, range shooting, orbital excursions, asteroid exploration and mining. Just saying.<p>Really do you think playing with a stick and a worm as our grand fathers did was more fun or more interesting than the dumbest iPhone game?