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While reading this article http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s1912667.htm I could not help wondering: who’s to blame? Why is this happening? Here is my crazy theory… it all starts with the familiar to all parents of school age children ‘I’m bored’. Especially during the school holidays the ‘I’m bored’ becomes a national song. Parents -including the writer herself- take their children out and about all day, only to hear 10 minutes after they are back, ‘I’m bored’. Is it a withdrawal from digital media symptom or lack of enough physical activity and chores? In most cases an innocent: -‘go watch something on TV then’ follows, and rapidly becomes a habit that cannot be stopped. The TV gets substituted by DVDs, videogames, ipods, mobile phones, Internet… you name it! It seems like this generation is incapable of entertaining itself with the simple things life has to offer. Children are bombarded from an early age with virtual pets, virtual games, virtual friends, virtual tutors, virtual sports activities, virtual lives. It only makes me wonder what is wrong with real pets, real games, real friends, real sports activities, real life? Whose fault is it anyway that today’s children suffer so much from boredom and depression, when they have ‘everything’? They have all the knowledge of the world literally at their fingertips and yet, when they discover those horrible sites they get glued and influenced by them; some of them even end tragically their lives as a result.