unfortunately i think it will not change back to a simple life however i think it should be a littlebit more..
for instance the issue with children don't play enough outside.... the have not enough excersize. well now with the WII that prob is "solved" we eat/live/do things less healthy but that will be compansated by the fact that the healthcare will be better and better.
children are more and more spoiled imo and parrents are allowing more and more. for instance (looks like a dumb example but i see a thing in it)
where i work (cinema) we have normal crisps and pringles.. pringles cost € 1.50 where the normal chrips cost € 0.70. (those are from lays). 2 years ago nobody didn't even bother for pringles but now all the children want pringles just because they are fancy.. and the parents just giving it to them... i can't understand such things
Don't understand the bit about the WII at all - if you think that's a substitute for socialising, exercise, 'fresh' air, learning about life from the rules of games, I can't agree. The WII is just another computer game console. If I ever have kids I'll definitely not want them playing computers all the time, WII included. I don't care how much energy you expend when trying to do a decent golf swing.
And parents buying their kids $1.50 crisps instead of $0.70 crisps doesn't really mean much. If the kids want a special treat while they're at the cinema then imo they can have wtf they want, so long as they enjoy them. One crisp is as unhealthy as the next but eating sweet or savoury shite is part of childhood, or should be anyway. Parents have a right to spoil their kids and kids have a right to be spoiled once in a while, though obviously lots of parents take it too far and the kids turn out to be complete dicks by the time they're adults.
There have always been spoiled kids and there have always been kids who aren't spoiled. The fact that this is still true isn't worrying: what's worrying is that parents these days spend less and less quality time with their kids because they're too tired from work or they just can't be bothered or because they actually don't like their kids, since they made such an arse of bringing them up that the kids are now unpleasant little bastards. However my kids turn out, should I ever have any, I hope any negative qualities they have aren't as a result of me not being able to give a shit as their parent. Though I suppose every kid resents something about how they were brought up.
Technology gives parents many excuses to not have to lift a finger to keep their children entertained; it's a case of switch on the computer and leave them the hell to it. It's the responsibility of the parent to make sure that they're better than that. There's a woman in my work whose daughter is 7 and she does everything: horse-riding, swimming, running, etc. The woman and her husband spend a lot of time with their daughter and the kid sounds like the ideal child really. She's turned out great because she's 100% certain that her parents actually care. They don't just bung her in front of a Playstation and go and drink wine in another room, and I respect her a lot for that. There will never be so much technology that parents are prevented from actually bringing their children up properly.
