What the F is this? It’s neither Educational nor Entertainment, it’s just a whole load of bollocks. You should either give your children books to read where there are long words and proper sentences and paragraphs, or you give them a game that just improves hand-eye coordination and problem-solving skills.

In fact, most Edutainment software are electronically glorified childrens’ television programme characters with their annoying catch-phrases looping around and around and around. Have you heard of Mavis Beacon Teaching Typing? Or some other program that teaches you the basics in using a computer? It’s basically a more graphically eye-pleasing version of those pieces of (shite) software. Why bother, really?

When I have kids, I’m not wasting money on that - I’m going to teach them like parents did in the old days. I acknowledge that having fun whilst learning is more effective than solely learning stuff, but I’m not going to sit there and watch my kids play with edutainment with it’s patronising female (more likely than not as they are considered to be more calming and clearly spoken) voice telling them “Well done!! You click on the blue square! Yay for you!” Never, ever, in a million years. And I’ll divorce my wife if she makes me buy anything of the sort, or if she goes out and gets it herself - sodding, she can have the child if it’s going to be trained up with an electronic voice. Gaaah!

For my children, basic English education will be taught by Michael Palin. Hand-eye coordination will be taught through piano lessons. And problem-solving skills will be taught through re-runs of Diagnosis Murder, Columbo, Waking the Dead, and CSI. Who needs a Government-run education system?

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Just so you know what Steve’s on about:

go on, punch her in the face it’s fine really.