“EVERYONE knows that babies crawl before they walk, and that tricycles come before two-wheelers. But at what age should children get their first cellphone, laptop or virtual persona?” … read the rest at at the NYTimes.com. This piece is mostly just a list of what kind of new toys are out there for kids of certain ages/stages. But it makes me wonder. What kind of people will they become when they grow up, when they’ve been raised on these loud blinking gadgets that give little more than an electronic payoff … ?

