Social and economic changes affect children indirectly, through the modifications they engender in parental behavior. No-fault divorce laws, for example, made divorce easier and led to a substantial increase in the number of separated families. In contrast to social and economic change, technological change can impact children directly without mediation by parents. Television, computer games, the Internet, and cell phones, to illustrate, have changed children's understanding of space, time, and causality. In many ways, children growing up today have a very different reality than did children growing up before the electronic age. Technology is here to stay and one should value and cherish many of its gifts, particularly in the areas of health and wellness. But one should not be blind to some of the harm technology can do. One cannot prevent children from acquiring different virtual conceptions of space, time, and causality than one does. But one can engage them in a number of activities that will ground them in the real world as well.