Musing on iPad pets.

Musing on iPad pets.

My youngest son is into fish. REALLY into fish these days.

We managed to collect and keep alive a beta fish (not sure of the name of this one, could be Crystal), a gold fish (Nemo II) and an aquarium with a little Oscar (Oscar) and sucker fish (Sucky.)

If that isn’t enough he has downloaded another aquarium on my iPad.

 You would think that would be fine. Actually the best kind of fish to have.

The virtual fish are making me crazy.

When I attempt to administer discipline on my children for bad behavior the first thing I used to do away with was the television. Now it is my iPad because they have so loaded that thing with entertainment that is made the perfect punishment.

Or it was the perfect punishment…

Until we have to now keep an aquarium full of fish alive.

Do you know that he has to change their water and feed them?

And the little booger, when I let him hop on the iPad to feed them — he just buys more fish.

I bet they could go a week without food.

Would it be cruel to let a virtual fish die?

I mean ethically?  I just want to drain the living daylights out of that App.

Any suggestions?