Our New Year passed quietly, though an Xbox snuck in under the radar. This came as a brand new Xbox and preloved kinect bar, in exchange for our old Wii and balance board, oh and a fair bit of cash. Not surprisingly this gave me disquiet on driving the consumer side of things though pleased that our old equipment can be reused and we can use others preloved equipment. But why? the main reason is peer pressure in school, especially for our son. These are important issues for kids and even though ours don't ask we hear the issues that occur in school due to the lack of the most up to date equipment. So we compromise!
This then raises the issue of how much time to spend in front a screen? There seem to be two camps one that kids brain development is changed by exposure to electronic input ( scientifically shown but is this good or bad? does it prepare them with skills for adult hood or rot their brains? ) and on the other hand let them have time on electronic games as it keeps them occupied. Guess what we go for a compromise. Both kids have household tasks to do through the week, if these are done well and spontaneously then time is gained on electronic games, this is a sliding scale. This does take input from adults, but the kids get to negociate their terms and know where they stand.
Hopefully over the next few days I will get 2012s carbon figures calculated and published. I think we did better than last year, but some of that is that we used gas central heating for 3 weeks of 2011, which virtually doubled our gas use for the year!
Our best wishes for 2013.
This then raises the issue of how much time to spend in front a screen? There seem to be two camps one that kids brain development is changed by exposure to electronic input ( scientifically shown but is this good or bad? does it prepare them with skills for adult hood or rot their brains? ) and on the other hand let them have time on electronic games as it keeps them occupied. Guess what we go for a compromise. Both kids have household tasks to do through the week, if these are done well and spontaneously then time is gained on electronic games, this is a sliding scale. This does take input from adults, but the kids get to negociate their terms and know where they stand.
Hopefully over the next few days I will get 2012s carbon figures calculated and published. I think we did better than last year, but some of that is that we used gas central heating for 3 weeks of 2011, which virtually doubled our gas use for the year!
Our best wishes for 2013.
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