Will Our Kids Be Happy? Why we don't allow them to find out for themselves?

Stanton Peele talks about the children on technology. They kids that are growing up with iPhone and probably in the future robots. Peele wonders if in the very near future kids won't be going outside to play, but simply surfing the web for something fun to do. Peele says that many people think it's paving the way for smarter and more productive children who will achieve more in their later lives. But as for Peele, he's skeptical on the whole movement.

He talkes of days when children would have to go outside to find their fun. It was a time when children's imaginations were allowed to roam free, and you could play for hours without having to stop and text your friend and the new phone you got (but it has a keyboard!) Peele wonders if people will use neuroscience to discovers what makes kids happy.

It sounds like a sarcastically written article about how children of the new age have come to rely on technology for fun. I can see where he's coming from. Maybe children now are being the short end of the stick, perhaps they're less happy and less inventive. But then of course on the other hand, maybe they'll be more intellectual and more intuative.

I don't think this article is quite to the level of contributing anything new to psychology. Howeverm I do think that it is asking questions that will be explored more by other people. Then I'm sure we will get the answers and those answers will be helpful to psychology.

Peele, Stanton. Will our kids be happy? Why we don't allow them to find out for themselves. 13, March 2009. Psychology Today Online. 26 March 2009.
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/200903/will-our-kids-be-happy-why-we-dont-allow-them-find-out-themselves