Today, forty hours is the amount of time an average kid spends using electronic media weekly. It used to be a full work week. This is close to total immersion. Why has a fascination with blow-em-up video games taken the place of pulling the wings off flies? Maybe it's nature's way of getting them ready for a future without any contact with nature...any nature! Viewers learn what dangers TV and video games pose to the developing child. They examine how life in a video world steals time from human contact, creates baseless fears, and teaches values that hinder maturity.

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