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PARENTING: Limit children's computer activity until they can read

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From: Charleston Gazette
Date: 20030603
Author:John Rosemond

Were he alive today, Samuel Taylor Coleridge might well have written, "PCs, PCs in every class, and no child is made to think."

Psychologist Jane Healy is surely a voice crying in the techno- wilderness, and like all such voices, she is likely to be heard when things have gone too far.

In "Failure to Connect" (Touchstone Books, $14), Healy sets forth an unpopular argument: Young, pre-literate children should have no access to computers. Period.

Healy cites a good amount of credible evidence to the effect that interaction with computer games and learning programs disrupts the normal course of ...

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