Video games are protecting children from the menace of evil TREES

The number of injuries sustained by children falling from trees has plummeted in recent years. The Times puts this down the fact that the “Xbox generation” of kids enjoys a life sedentary entertainment where shattered limbs and mouthfuls of broken teeth have no part to play.

But apparently this is a BAD THING. Usually newspapers and the rest of the mainstream media is obsessed with highlighting any potential damage a video game might do to a child’s fragile young mind but now, because games aren’t physically harming kids, we should be worried.

Children are now just as likely to injure themselves by falling out of bed as they are by putting their strength and agility to the test in the leafy heights of mother nature’s organic deathtraps living playgrounds. So councils and academics want things to change:

"We've got nothing against climbing trees, it can be a great way of kids learning to deal with risks,” says a spokesman from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. "We have asked ourselves whether it's better to break a wrist falling from a tree than developing Repetitive Strain Injury from playing computer games."

I dunno, is it?

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