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A computer is not a babysitter. Unfortunately there are many "parents" who make use of it that way. Human interaction is essential to the proper development of a child. While touch and in-person guidance cannot be provided, at least some of what's missing can be.
This website would have volunteers
to live cam with children and read them age-appropriate books on a one-to-few basis, with conversation and discussion of the book topics.
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The possibilities for subverting this for Evil are considerable, so [+]. |
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And we disagree with the first paragraph, of course. |
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"Read Tome" is a good name for this service |
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It really needs to be one-to-one. Then, even with a carefully screened list of "appropriate" material, it's easy to warp their malleable little minds and turn them into bitter, cynical, distrustful lumps of spiteful hatred before they're even teenagers. |
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Even nursery rhymes and stories can be used that way; "Jack and Jill", where Jack sustains a serious head injury and Jill does nothing to help; "Humpty Dumpty", a saga of callous official indifference to the suffering of an individual; and so many more.... |
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// you don't need to spin English nursery doggerel for that. // |
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Perhaps not - the stories underlying most of them tend to be very, very dark. The original of Pinocchio is astonishingly bleak and violent ... |
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As to German, they learn that on their own initiative once they've been suitably motivated* to read "Mein Kampf"** in the original... |
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*Much easier than you think, but we're not telling you our method. |
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**A dreadful, irrational, incoherent book, but it has its uses. |
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