our houses are a lil bit dirtier than those back in the day! LOL! They had nothing else to do so cleaning was the next best thing. My mom cleaned alot. I get a lil bit distracted. *wink* I was in high school when we got our first computer and all we had was email...remember juno? So to be a parent now to a toddler the internet does save me, but reading that one other response about not having the library, the public pool, friends hanging out, it does worry me my son will miss those opportunities. It'll be up to me for him to have a childhood even among the ipods, leapfrogs, psp, flatscreens, HD, etc, etc, etc...