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Re:What happens when children don’t have the internet for a ... by Broken_Hippo on Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:24AM (#12505468)
I was a teenager 20 years ago, and I'm not so sure about that. My brother was an actual child then.

The equivelent would have been to take away all social contact, plus television and video games and some freedom of movement to see folks for 8 hours. It wasn't like I generally had 8 hours to myself back then - between school and homework and chores and church (parents insisted) and the few friends and outings I did have, I simply didn't have that. And then, suddenly, some person doing an experiment wants to isolate me for 8 hours? I'd have been horribly bored as well.

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Re:What happens when children don’t have the internet for a ... by anotheryou on Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:57AM (#12505685)
Exactly. Even staying at home alone while the supervising parent went shopping sometimes got boring after the first 30 minutes. Albeit no horrible experience, I went along shopping most of the time, not to stay home alone.
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