We don’t need no stinkin’ TV to play a video game

When Ron Stanley, a guest writer for The Washington Post, wrote an article reminiscing a time his nieces and nephews were banned from playing a video game or watching television, it was what the children did next that was surprisingly heartwarming.

As he spoke of his six-year-old nephew trying to finish his homework while the others played, it reminded me of the time when I was fifth grader struggling with math, distracted by my brothers playing Pong on the Atari 2600 in the next room. I wanted to play so bad. I could hear the joyful bleeps and my brothers madly twirling the paddles almost to a breaking point. So I can totally feel for the six-year-old described in Stanley’s article.

But the story wasn’t about the struggling six-year-old trying to finish his homework. It was about the writer’s nieces and nephews trying to find a way to entertain themselves without any form of entertainment…