I hate seeing little kids with cellphones, ipods, ipads, laptops,etc. It’s stupid for the parents to buy them for their kids, buy them toys and coloring books. Not expensive fucking electronics. Fuck, I saw some parent buying her four year old son a 3DS and he promply dropped it and threw a tentrom because it was the wrong color. So she bought ANOTHER for him. What the fuck.
except…I used my entire 8th year of my life scheming to get a Tamagotchi. certainly if I’d had the opportunity to obtain a different small, glittery, technological device at that age I would have pursued it as passionately as Ralphie from A Christmas Story went after his gun.
now, the temper tantrum bit is totally unacceptable, and I wouldn’t have done that, but that’s because my mom knew how to discipline.