It's certain that not every child of this present generation has had a TV or an Xbox as a baby sitter. It's not a judgement on any kid, really, it's just a general statement of the way some kids were raised in the last generation and how some kids are being raised in this generation.

Fifty years ago, I was a teenager and have always mourned the fact that I didn't have a "normal" childhood. I wasn't allowed to do any of the things most other kids did. It was mostly because my mom didn't trust anyone except her sisters and sister's kids, but they were all old enough to be my parents. Aside from that, I was born when my mom was 46. She never had a childhood either, because she was raised in a very strict boarding school for girls where looking out the window was a "sin." It was a "sin" because there was a seminary (all boys and men) across the street.

When I was growing up my parents were my mom and her mom. They wanted me to sit with them in my own rocking chair and rock away the evenings.

I just know how I raised my kids, as per the original post, and how they are raising their own kids now. Some had their own computers at age 5 and there's another one, that age 7, is already addicted to his game box. If he can't play on that, he borrows people's cell phones to play those games. Too bad it's not the technology he's addicted to. That would earn him a very good living when he grows up. I also have grandkids that don't know beans about computers. LOL

Actually, Jay Leno's statement was the strongest one and what caught my attention.