Children of today

I frequently babysit for a woman that used to work in my mother's office. All the children are 10 and under, and I've noticed that they seem so much more grown up then kids the same age acted 10 years ago. Not to mention, the 10 year old has a cell phone. Seriously? who could he possibly need to call that at 10 years old he needs a cellphone? Sometimes it comes in handy when he's walking to a friends house and calls me to let me know he got there, or to let me know baseball practice ended early, but really I think it's a little bit ridiculous. These kids have so much technology at their fingertips, and yet I don't see it benefitting them. Most of the day is spent on the couch watching high-def tv or playing ps3 or psp or games I've never heard of and decided not to even bother trying to figure out. I feel like getting all 3 of them to go outside and play a game is torture. The oldest one loves to be outside and play sports, but the youngest two need to literally be dragged outside by their shoelaces or with cookie bribes. When i was their age, my imagination was unstoppable. I had so many toys like barbies, beanie babies, the plastic dinosaurs/farm animals/ jungle animals, etc that i made whole histories, relationships, occupations and cities for. The new technologies coming out are more interactive, but they still keep kids inside and working off of someone else's imagination, not their own. Not to mention being inside all the time really just isn't healthy in my opinion. The mom tries to get them involved in dance and sports teams, but other than that they seem to have no motivation to really just go and "play" like i remember all the kids around me doing. I have seen literally every single episode of iCarly and dora the explorer after babysitting them this summer and into the fall- it's kind of nauseating. Maybe I'm just biased, but I think something needs to be done to separate these kids from so much invasive and impersonal technology. PSP won't give you any real friends, Yo Gabba Gabba will not teach kids how to interact with one another.