Video game console as a nanny would more diserve a topic.
What about children reading books instead, so you'll have them clever and awaken enough later to decode the world through what is written here and there.
The Internet is quite interesting nowadays as you can still find precise clues to catch what's more or less going on even through videos, but it may be not true in the future (Internet as a controlled media would be the end of it, and it has already begun). Books are still the best alternative. But I'm not speaking about making children little adults right now of course. Each thing in its time.
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C3PX, your evil teletubbie is awful.