It is a classic example of when people consider literacy they are usually only considering functional literacy, the time the child spent on the computer would have enhanced his literacy in other ways.
Meg Mason vs. bedtime stories. Picture: Denise Dorrance. Source: Supplied
JUST hit the sofa after full evening’s work when Billy pads back out of bedroom to remind me we’ve forgotten bedtime story
- which, sadly, due to his advancing years, is no longer short-and-sweet romp through the alphabet and/or barnyard, but rather a to-be-negotiated number of chapters of epically boring tale about dragons/knights/lakes of fire, etc. He opens the brick-size tome to chapter XXIVVLCC and I take a deep breath.
“Lord Galthazor raised his sword and... Billy, I don’t think I can do this tonight,” I say.
“How about 10 minutes of funny animal videos on YouTube, instead?”
He bounces off to computer and I sink back into couch.
Love that virtual barnyard.
*No children were harmed in the making of this fictional column.
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