Agree or disagree: Kids from poor and working-class families do not have the opportunities...

[AllyCat]

8. Agree. We are a middle class family and we notice an uptick in poor

behaviors with our own kids when we have not been at home as much due to outside activities. We notice more struggle with basic functions, let alone academic tasks if we are unable to have time together. I cannot imagine what it is like for a family where the parents are stressed out from having no job, not home and stressed because they are looking for a job, or are stressed and not home due to working with poor hours, no job security.

We have no cable and just got a teevee a little over a year ago. We read and have hundreds of children's books, let alone the overflowing bookcases with books for the adults. We have a huge bookcase with just GAMES. Board games, not video games. But our kids need us around all the time. They crave interaction. They do well in school. How would they fare if they were plopped in front of the teevee all day because we couldn't afford day care? Or were so busy keeping the house together that we needed the idiot box to entertain them?