A Future Generation and "Fantastic Mr Fox"

On an apparently ordinary train journey back from the north of England yesterday, there was a young family sat in front of me; a mother with her little son I guess around 5 or 6 and her daughter who looked a year or so older. Nothing unusual there but there were no computer games and no mobile phones. In fact the little girl was reading a children's book by Roald Dahl and the son was playing word games with his mother. For most of the three and a half hour journey, the mother continued to encourage the children to read and to engage with language and with no electronic media. I thought these children could well be destined for real future careers. Perhaps it's worth mentioning too that the family were second or third generation South Asian and such a fine family too.