regardless of how we all feel about videogames... We will not be able to "fix" the education problems in this country without parents putting forth a full effort. - JoEllen

As a parent, I agree 100% with what Obama said. Indeed, let's not get lazy. - Mike Reynolds

I agree with that comment of Obama's too. School may be for education, but parents should be teaching their kids how to behave. That includes moral guidance, a sense of right and wrong, discipline too. Also sex ed and guidance should be a parental responsibility not a schools. - Ian May

In the school my mother taught at for 35 years, they had to start offering dental services to children AT SCHOOL because parents weren't doing it AT HOME. This alongside the school psychologist/psychiatrist, the free/reduced lunches and offering breakfast & childcare for low income kids as well. I'm not saying these things shouldn't be done - but that is why we're spending so much on education. The school is taking care of what isn't being taken care of at home. I should add that is in a suburban school. - JoEllen

Our society's really self absorbed. Hard to be a parent when you are! - Patricia

I don't think Obama was talking about parents playing videogames, I think he's talking about kids playing videogames and watching TV. - JoEllen

I think he was talking about family priorities. Many of the 8th graders in my sister's classroom have PS3's or xboxes at home but honestly do no have/own notebooks, folders, pencils, or $ for after school activities. - JoEllen

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I'd even settle for parents and kids playing videogames together. Thank you Rock Band, Guitar Hero and the Wii. - JoEllen

If people are mad that Obama said this, I think they're overreacting. It's not like he was demonizing TV and video games outright. There's just an increase in parents not taking responsibility to discipline their kids in all aspects, including having a balance between reading, learning, having the thirst for knowledge, and playing video games, watching TV, and doing other stuff like that. - Cheryl Jones

Growing up, I played a lot of NES, Sega, had my own computer and spent a lot of time on it. But I was also a voracious reader, had strong interests in science (not so much math) and English, and generally had a good balance with my interests. The balance isn't so great now with kids. And a lot of parents do not discipline their kids like my parents disciplined me (it bugs the crap out of me, seeing kids running wild in stores and not getting scolded). I think his call to parents was correct and necessary. - Cheryl Jones

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