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It's hard to imagine a 2 year old with RSI but given what you have posted Mantra, I think this sort of technological abuse could amount to more problems than we are aware of, psychophysical and social harm is just the beginning.
When I was a kid, (i'm 35) we walked, roller skated or rode to friends houses, went to the park and kicked a ball around, played tip, and bull-rush...and acquired grass-burns from doing gymnastics on our front/back lawns, or from hitting bumps in the ground from the old slip'n'slide... I got a Dick-Smith VZ-300 (generic cheap version of a Commodore 64) but it would take about 2 or 3 hours to program in each game, (ie frogger, pack-man) so it was quicker to set up the crash-mats (gymnastics) or the slip'n'slide...and far healthier also.
These days, the local parks are quite bare, mostly filled with toddlers and their parents...the odd kid using the skate ramp unsupervised, but not a lot of activity, given they are too engrossed in their games munching on a bag of cheesels at home.
My son goes to the gym,(is becoming quite the health nut) my daughter walks with me just about every day (about 4km) ...it should be...."no exercise, no computer."
The trouble is, with parents working later and later these days, this and the family budget shrinking, it's easier and more affordable to plant them in front of a computer game and buy them garbage...ie take-away on their way home from work.
Juvenile diabetes type two is alarmingly high!
A consequence of modern living -vrs- lazy or misguided parenting?
A bit of both I think!
I have seen 10 year old kids with rolled shoulders and poor posture due to excessive computer and game-console use...and their spelling is atrocious! Text-speak is all the rage, it's cool to misspell words which I think is a huge concern.
We really need to get back to basics, start hitting it home to parents now re- the psychological, physical, intellectual and social consequences re- excessive game and computer use.
This said, I doubt a government who attributed/celebrated their "Education Revolution" to/with the pointless use of similar technology in our kids classrooms will want to place too much emphasis on the systemic over-use of such technology at school or at home.
My son's school-issued lap-top is tweaked so he can watch youtube, movies, MSN, skype , play games etc... he cant recall the last time a teacher asked them to use it in class, after the first year they rolled them out.
Tony Abbotts quite health conscious, seems to be fitness focused, (as was Howard) so with any luck he'll implement some meaningful health and fitness programs into our kids schools and perhaps even assist/co-fund more local out-of-school community fitness projects once we do away with that awkward dumpling Gillard who waddles like she's trying to win an egg-and spoon race with a spoon between her asparagus shaped legs.
*blush*
