You could argue that the problem with your suburban life is that there's not enough of this -- that it's a big, messy, diverse, often foul world out there and there are worse things than having your kid encounter a minor, harmless sliver of it amid the comfortable monochrome of suburbia.
The Angry German Kid video contains two parts of keyboard smashing: a short part when the Angry German Kid encounters a minor error but fixes it with "positive thinking, and a major part in which the Angry German Kid severely damages his keyboard and leaves".
"What it's about to us is dealing with all of the issues these kids encounter," Mr. Cohn said.
Earlier this week, I looked at some curious differences in the ways that Chinese and American kids encounter the concept of achievement.
By Evan Osnos September 23 , 2011 Earlier this week I looked at some curious differences in the ways that Chinese and American kids encounter the concept of achievement.
When I described him to friends and visitors, they'd often bring up "Hey Arnold," the nineties Nickelodeon cartoon about a group of fourth-grade kids encountering figures of urban legend: Pigeon Man, Stoop Kid, Monkeyman, and the ilk.
She suggests that when kids encounter sex for the first time in the mainstream media and find it lacking they turn inwards.
The company's employees and users seem to have good intentions they're trying to protect children but porn and social media are probably less dangerous than what most kids encounter at school.
Today, by contrast, kids encounter "lean back" media like TV and "lean forward" platforms like the web; touch, tap and tilt mobile media and the new sine qua non of active, whole-body engagement, the Kinect (the New York Times' David Pogue says, "You can't play Kinect sitting down, and that's a plus").
At the same time, it risks having your child encounter an online sexual predator or someone who's out to take advantage of your kid.
The very young focus group living at my house would certainly concur; our kids have encountered CD's with inscrutable navigation systems, questionable lesson plans and brain-dead software design.
