Children in the U.S. today interact much less with their physical environment than they used to. Few grow up building fences, designing go-karts or tinkering with their cars anymore; vocational high schools are all but closed. What do kids today do instead? The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported that 8- to 18-year-olds spend 53 hours a week engrossed in entertainment media.
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