Six-Year-Old Orders Almost $400 Worth of Toys
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🗓️ 20 August 2018
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If we are going to raise our children well in a technology-saturated culture, there's something most adults are going to have to do first. Colossians 3:2 says, "Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth." For more news discerned differently or to receive the Daily Article via email, visit denisonforum.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the daily article from Monday, August 20th, 2018. |
| 0:06.2 | Today's daily article is written by Blake Atwood. The article's being read by Chris Elkins of Denison |
| 0:10.7 | Forum. I hope you enjoy his perspective on news discern differently. |
| 0:15.9 | Six-year-old orders almost $400 worth of toys by Blake Atwood. Would you shop at Walmart in a virtual |
| 0:24.5 | showroom? The company recently applied for intellectual property patents that would allow VR |
| 0:30.9 | headset owners to browse their store shelves via virtual reality. The experience may still be years away, but Walmart is working on this |
| 0:40.5 | VR experience to woo customers away from their chief rival, Amazon. However, as Caitlin Lunt has |
| 0:48.6 | proven, Amazon has achieved their preferred consumer status by making the shopping experience so simple as six-year-old can order almost $400 worth of toys from her mom's accounts. |
| 1:03.4 | Of course, Caitlin wasn't supposed to order that much. She just wanted to check her mom's computer for the delivery date of a Barbie her mom had ordered as a reward for doing chores. |
| 1:15.4 | But how could Caitlin refuse the allure of Amazon presenting dozens of other Barbie-themed items to her? |
| 1:23.2 | A few clicks later, including checking the box for two-day shipping, Caitlin had ordered herself |
| 1:30.0 | a rather large collection of Barbies. The photos accompanying the article with Caitlin grinning |
| 1:36.9 | in front of a tower of delivered boxes speak volumes about her feeling on the outcome. |
| 1:44.9 | Closer to home, I recently spent time with my Fortnite playing 11-year-old nephew. |
| 1:51.9 | We discussed his interests, which, unsurprising to most any parent of a pre-team boy, centered on gaming. |
| 1:59.5 | I also spoke with my twin teenage nieces casually asking them about the |
| 2:04.8 | rules their parents had set for texting. They were kind enough to answer and didn't seem too |
| 2:11.4 | terribly embarrassed that their uncle was inquiring about their texting habits. During our |
| 2:16.9 | conversations, I couldn't help but think |
| 2:19.6 | how different the world is in which they're growing up compared even to my generation, and |
| 2:26.9 | apparently I'm a zennial. My interrogations were motivated by my future, namely, how am I going to raise my three-year-old son in a world that longs to steal his attention away from what really matters? |
| 2:45.0 | At this point, I'm tempted to quote most of Andy Crouch's book, The Tax Wise Family, Everyday Steps for Putting Technology |
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