Hi Pen;

Yes, they share a lot of the blame. The CRT Monitors do anyway. The book remains out on flat screens.

For some reason I thought that you were referring to behavioral patterns at first. While some children will indeed show a negative effect from such, further examination always shows that the children who demonstrate the negative effect, nearly always come from a home where the discipline was of a lower, more lax level. Have fun finding that statistic though, as what that insinuates is not complimentary to the modern, liberal ideals.

Now here lies a failing point that we share. I have been getting better about it over the last decade or so, but I continue to forget how much different the world you and I were raised in, was in comparison to the world of today. We are from an era when parents were careful to define the lines between right and wrong in much finer detail than today's children have the benefit of. Both of us are well aware of where that leads, are we not?

But what about the eyesight issue? Might the way that children are being raised have a bearing on that as well? Do you remember how parents would literally grab their kid's feet, and drag them back from the TV a ways? Well, I'm pretty sure that you do. Did parents not seem more aware of what might harm their children back then?

I look around, and I see so many issues which stem from the manner in which children are raised, and I wonder where and when this trend will come to an end. Know where I'm coming from on this? Is child abuse actually any worse than sending them out into the world with such a lackluster set of ethics is? If it is, I can't seem to see it. In fact I even think that they are pretty much the same thing. Today's world is more tense and hectic than it was at any time in our history. Yet parents routinely push their kids out that door with the worst set of social skills ever known. How can this be right?