Originally Posted by GUWonder

I was flying long-haul international flights as a little kid when the only in-flight entertainment was non-electronics. What worked then doesn't work all the twell now. And the academic studies on children and technology speaks a fair amount to it.

The non-flight use of the electronics devices has its own addictive tendency. And withdrawal for even the marginally addicted can result in outbursts. Parents seem to have way less control over children now than they used to have, and the electronic babysitters have become the ultimate weapon/tool in the parental armory. Which nuclear power voluntary gives up all of its nukes and expects the dynamics on the stage to remain all the same? None, from what I see.