Originally Posted by Grinity
....You aren't OK, I'm OK: My Adults are clearly stupid. I'm smarter than they are. I don't know everything, so if I run into a situation I can't handle, I'm out of luck. No wonder I'm so anxious and sad.
(If I remember correctly, this last position, although appealingly close to the truth at times, is the most dangerous - it is the one that really fills the definition of 'depriving a child of their childhood.')
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Love and More Love,
Grinity

Even more chilling, that mindset is pervasive in psychopaths and other criminals.

I wonder if hours of video game playing does permanent damage to a developing childs mind? I'd think if not by direct damage then at least by an indirect method of preventing them from learning other things.

Last edited by OHGrandma; 10/18/08 07:42 AM.