inignoct wrote: ] mal wrote: ] ] ] Would today's tykes tolerate the classic games you grew ] ] ] up with? Kids do say the darndest things in this uncut ] ] ] version of an EGM article - now with a bonus game not ] ] ] included in the original story! ] ] as funny/painful/accurate as this is, what strikes me most is ] the sophistication some of these kids present in their speech. ] I don't think i'd have used the phrase "corporate espionage" ] when i was 11, and i was pretty well read. it's a little ] scary... how long til our 8 year olds have schedules as ] packed as their parents, digitally negotiating dinner time via ] wireless network access? You're right and I thought that some of their criticisms show a lot of sophistication as well. They're automatically subsuming a level of critical thinking I would not have expected - realizing and pointing out that the umbrellas are arbitrarily chosen - that they don't actually do anything umbrellalike for instance. And the other thing is just that their baseline expectations are much higher. The ET criticism was the funniest! I remember hating that effing pit!!!! RE: Kids Play |