Nice level pavement run. Taking it easy today. Again. My daughter and I have been prepping for some time for her first debate meet today. At 11 years old I have been pretty sceptical about this being anything useful. But the kids did a great job. It could be the subject matter; if parents should limit screen time and game time to one hour per day. She was given the opposing presentation, that kids should not be limited. I was wondering what she would say since we have no defined limits on things (but we have no internet or cable either). The other team made their argument first, explaining why TV and games hurt society when watched too much, showed obesity stats in the US, and how TV "rots" children's brains. Natalie's partner then got up and explained how his hero Jackie Chan learned English by watching TV and ended up more successful than all the adults in the room. So the other team came back with yeah, but he's one in a billion, and showed more stats on how average game and smart phone time for children in the country is up to 4 hours per day and costing the US 7 billion a year in lost productivity. But then Nat got up and said she agreed with all of the other team's points and that they propose screen time be even less than the pro argument at three hours a week, but instead of forcing limits on kids their parents should take them out to do things more fun than video games and the whole issue would be resolved. That kind of ended the debate since the other kids didn't know how to argue a point with someone who seemed to agree with them. The debate judge loved it, and I might have found something my daughter likes doing besides taking care of stray animals. | 