Comments on: Listen To Your Children: Playing is Green

By: Free and Paid Online Games For the Aware Child: Woogi World

Free and Paid Online Games For the Aware Child: Woogi World — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:07:03 +0000

[...] Here’s the deal in my house. My kids get 30 minutes of media; it can be a TV show or some computer time. I’ll give them longer for a movie when we watch together or an hour or more when they’re playing with pictures or Garage Band, but really, leaving my kids parked in front of the computer on a glorious summer day is not my idea of time well spent. [...]

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:27:16 +0000

Kids are so clever! Too bad they can’t run for president.

By: Jessica Gottlieb

Jessica Gottlieb — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:39:49 +0000

So how is it that the smarter they are, the more they are able to bleed us dry?

By: Larry Walker

Larry Walker — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:25:59 +0000

I don’t know about the dishwasher or napkins, but she has a point with the Wii. I’m blessed with 17 year old twin daughters. They just want to make it to the WNBA. They care about the planet too. They recently asked me to buy them bicycles so they can ride to school and practice sometimes without their mother having to drive them. I had to oblige on that one. And then of course they asked for money right after that as is the norm.

By: Sarah Auerswald

Sarah Auerswald — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:48:17 +0000

HA! I love the Wii angling. She’s a smart one, Jessica, you better keep on your toes around her.

By: Autumn

Autumn — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:09:37 +0000

Hey, I’m a mommy, and I got myself a Wii! I let the kids play too. Sometimes.

By: Mrs. Domino

Mrs. Domino — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:32:14 +0000

Ha! I’m cracking up about the Wii! Oh the perspective of the young!

By: green blog

green blog — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:24:53 +0000

Being a part time social worker, I had the opportunity to mix with some of the brightest teenagers around. Compared to those from our time, children these days are more attentive, knowledgeable (thanks to the Internet) and have ideas of their own. Things have really changed.