I don’t see anything wrong with kids using electronic toys. We all live a different life then people did even 25-years ago. I will bet everyone here has a cell phone, 25-years ago only the super rich had them. My grandmother use to say she would never have one of those newfangled things in her kitchen (the microwave.) real cooks use a range and an oven.

Times change.

While my son and I enjoy doing a lot of non-electronic things, we also enjoy the electronics. We all do. Before you say you don’t look at what you are doing while typing that denial. It’s not a typewriter you are using, or even worst a pen and paper & a postoffice.

I think while it’s good to have a mix of electronic and non electronic things to do for kids, electronics are a large part of our lives, and if your kids are thrown into an unfamiliar situation the electronic game can be comforting and familiar to a kid. This can mean the world to the parent’s sanity. It’s a good idea to come up with a way to power your electronics when power is in short supply.

We had a roughly similar experience after the ice storm. Our portable DVD player would just barely squeak out one movie on a charge so that was usually the last thing we did before bed in the evenings. Our kids love all their electronic gadgets but we also have a double size closet that is full of nothing but games and arts/crafts. That closet got a pretty thorough workout during that week. I even got a chance to read to the kids which was something we hadn't done much of in a while. Honestly it was just a camp out in the living room.

My kids were kids before laptops, PDQ's (or thatever those thingies are called), etc. It was TV or nothing. But they apparently got some of my genes, they both loved to read, and we always had a lot of reading material around. A few board and card games rounded it out...

I love to read, my son loves to have books but I never see him reading much.

Abstinence.

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