Children growing up in America today blindly surrender their halcyon days to television screens.
They can be seen emerging from air-conditioned basements into the searing sun, almost collapsing from the effort. One child may ask what the others want to do next. Today s technologies are exciting. Living in an affluent and industrialized society affords Americans leisure time that is just waiting to be filled. American children, largely free from any responsibility in the economic sustenance of the family, have a lot more leisure time than any other segment of the population.