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Article: Video games aren't the problem; it's the parents.(Springfield Extra)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2008
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Byline: Todd Huffman For The Register-Guard
It was undoubtedly with great effort that local parents this week pried their slack-jawed and twitchy-thumbed children away from their newly unwrapped video games and sent them back to the boring-by-comparison, live-action world of school and homework.
Johnny and Emily are returned to the classroom, where teachers are laboring tirelessly to repair the brain damage done in time for the next long weekend or school vacation.
Or so nongamers believe. But skepticism of new media is a tradition as old as ancient Greece, when Socrates worried that relying on written texts, rather than the oral tradition, ...