Toys and TV already effected the last. I guess it's about smart parenting. When I was young our computer only had one game on it. After I got bored to that, I invented my own games using microsoft paint. First I draw this miniature submarine in minecraft style. Then single clicks of that spray paint tool were depth charges. I think I should thank my parents for letting me wait a year for Age of Empires. I guess my point is that it's not bad to have tools, it's bad to have too much entertainment.
Back when I didn't have internet and hell you can only play so much Roller Coaster Tycoon, I a) got extremely good at hearts, b) got extremely good at freecell, and c) drew hundreds of fantasy worlds in paint. Loved paint. A more versatile program has never been created. Messed around with the command prompt, wrote a hundred pages of a book when I was 12 (password protected ten years ago, god help me, so I can't even read it now), and gained a healthy respect for degaussing.