A Houseful of Addicts
I'll swear my kids, especially my 11 year old, is addicted to anything containing a microchip. Sure we have a "one hour a day" rule, but with five kids, it's hard to keep track. Plus he's always using excuses like, "But I'm not playing video games, I'm hotsyncing my Palm Pilot." How 'bout hotsyncing that brain of yours, boy, so it'll regain its imagination, learn to play with sibs, and so on. Now that's a concept. Anyway, I think I've come up with a solution. I'm confiscating all controllers, PDA's, and keyboards and locking them away. My kids can "check them out" from lockup, but they have to punch a time card to get them and they have to punch a time card within a hour. If the cumulation of all"check outs" exceed an hour each day, it's no microchips then next day.