The Veldt by Ray Bradbury - Do you wonder what goes on in your childrenтАЩs minds? The Hadleys didтАУand they dared enter the forbidden doorway to The World The Children Made.
тАЬGeorge, I wish youтАЩd look at the nursery.тАЭ
тАЬWhatтАЩs wrong with it?тАЭ
тАЬI donтАЩt know.тАЭ
тАЬWell, then.тАЭ
тАЬI just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to look at it.тАЭ
тАЬWhat would a psychologist want with a nursery?тАЭ тАЬ
You know very well what heтАЩd want.тАЭ His wife paused in the middle of the kitchen and watched the stove busy humming to itself, making supper for four. тАЬItтАЩs just that the nursery is different now than it was.тАЭ
тАЬAll right, letтАЩs have a look.тАЭ They walked down the hall of their soundproofed Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them. Their approach sensitized a switch somewhere and the nursery light flicked on when they came within ten feet of it. Similarly, behind them, in the halls, lights went on and off as they left them behind, with a soft automaticity.
тАЬWell,тАЭ said George Hadley. They stood on the grass-like floor of the nursery. It was forty feet across by forty feet long and thirty feet high; it had cost half again as much as the rest of the house. тАЬBut nothingтАЩs too good for our children,тАЭ George had said.