“Our four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a way that you're like, "Wow, I've got to stage an intervention here." He picked up on gaming terminology really quickly. If you say, "Keep practicing holding a pencil and see if you can draw a letter, the alphabet," he understands that if you do that you've unlocked Level Two.” IfsWayYearsTwoKidsLevelsFourStageDrawsLettersWowFour YearsIntroducingPencilsInterventionAlphabetGamingIpadsTerminology Author:Charlie Brooker
“I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.” KnowsKindDifferentKidsThese DaysBoredomDifferent Kinds Author:Charlie Brooker
“My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.” WorldKidsYoungWorryHorror Author:Charlie Brooker
“I did once leave one of [my kid] watching something on YouTube, something completely innocuous, and I went out of the room and the algorithm kept playing the next thing and the next thing and somehow worked its way around to showing him the trailer for John Carpenter's The Thing - at which point I walked back in. He wasn't happy.” WayKidsNextRoomsYoutubeTrailersCarpenterAlgorithms Author:Charlie Brooker
“I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!” KidsGamesParentDangerTelevisionGrewComputerGrew UpCountrysideComputer Games Author:Charlie Brooker
“[My parents when I was a kid] would go, "It's a nice hot day. Why are you inside watching the TV?" And you go, "Well, 'cause it's better?"” WellsKidsCausesParentNiceTvsHotHot Days Author:Charlie Brooker
“[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!” WorldKidsHavensBraveNew WorldBrave New WorldHuxley Author:Charlie Brooker
