#We need sites like club penguin and webkinz and poptropica and wizard 101 | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thewolfofthestars · 2 months ago

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look. I am willing to admit I am wrong about many things.

however. one thing I am definitely right about is that small children should have, instead of a smart device and tiktok, an ancient shitty dinosaur of a computer running windows 98 with a crt monitor. and instead of an internet connection it has ms paint and freeware king's quest and solitaire and minesweeper and pinball and a mario knockoff and 800 words of paw patrol fanfic in a word document somewhere

#a 5 year old does not need social media. a 5 year old needs to be scribbling pictures in ms paint and setting them as desktop backgrounds #a 5 year old does not need the internet. a 5 year old needs to be learning how to type and use a mouse and how file systems work #in a safe environment where they can fuck around and not destroy anything and not get taken advantage of #My parents definitely fucked up a lot raising me but this is one incredibly good decision they made #I did not get to touch the internet until I was old enough to understand the consequences #(old enough here being like. 8 or 9. and even then the limit was webkinz and club penguin and youtube)#That's another thing tbh. I'm mad that all of kids' online spaces have disappeared #We need sites like club penguin and webkinz and poptropica and wizard 101 #and they just aren't a thing anymore so kids end up on instagram and get their brains rotted #anyways. I ramble

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