Screen budget

"We live in a cyber-age," Vic said after finishing his lontong. "My 5-year old is so good with computer games."

Technology is taking over the home. PSP games, PC games, Wii, Nintendo DS games are here to stay, and we parents can't always stop this technorace.

The best we can do is to provide speed bumps and pit stops to slow it down. We create a screen budget...allowing ACE a certain amount of screen time weekly.

After all, there is a bright side to technology that we parents should allow and a dark side to technology that we must stop.