Everybody panic! It’s another “media rapes children” scare! The good oldTelegraph, not one to publish a story with an anti-videogame bent, has brought word that British two-year-olds are developing “speech problems” thanks to TV and game addiction.
A nationwide screening program is being considered in the UK to find out more about these speech problems, which “experts” are now saying could be more widespread than dyslexia and autism. As well as videogames, other proposed courses are social deprivation, the decline of the “traditional British mealtime” and, surprisingly, poor childcare. Yes, for once the actual parentingmightbe considered.
And parenting, or lack thereof, is of course the root problem with most childhood issues. I mean, what is a two-year-old doing evenplayingvideogames, let alone to the kind of extent that one could classify as addiction? It’s no secret that the average Brit is growing up stupider than a spongecake bicycle, with testing standards failing, youth crime rising and parents being too frightened/lazy to do something about it.
But it’s being observed now that some two-year-olds don’t even know their ownname. Sorry, but you don’t getthatstupid from playing videogames. You get that stupid from having moron chav parents who only squirted you out so they could claim extra money on their welfare checks.
[ViaGoNintendo]
