Marketing basically. They wanted the console to look more like video equipment and less like a toy. This concern was because of the video game crash of '83
>What changed? In a 2023 article for Psychology Today, Gray proposed some factors that began reshaping parents’ attitudes and children’s behavior around the middle of the century: “the arrival of television, the rise of adult-directed kids’ sports, the gradual exclusion of kids from public spaces, the declining opportunities for gainful employment or meaningful contributions to the family economy, and, finally, the increased mandate that kids must be constantly monitored and protected.”
You will see lots of kids free-ranging in Lakewood, NJ. A lot of families there have banned TV from the home.
The takeover of US kids soccer by club soccer is disturbing to me. Generally kids who play are either well off or extremely talented (called "scholarship"?).
I think the clubs suck the fun out of it. Even with the expense, American players perform much worse than players in other countries where the kids have just been playing for fun for years until they start getting paid.
That paragraph bothered me. It gives a strong “assuming the conclusion” vibe. Oh, a factor reshaping parents attitudes is a “mandate that kids must be constantly monitored and protected” (in other words, parents’ attitudes)? You don’t say.
No, the mandate is enforced by the government coming and taking away your children by force, for some indeterminate period of time, until your lawyer goes in front of a judge and (hopefully) the judge rules that the government is stupid and should give you your kids back. But by then the damage is done.
One has to think if a state wanted to eliminate individualism in society this application of surveillance and restraint to children would be entirely by design...
I've read the other article about the 3d scanning Cat. Kind of get the feeling this guy has lived a privledge life and gets things done by other people doing it for him before he even asks. How many times does he have to mention he has is phone loaded up with social media apps and allows notifications? It must be really hard for him to turn these off considering his constant assault of convinces and people wanting to do things for him.
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