what type of tools should parents be equipping their children with, today?

Pencils, pens, paper. Printed books--good, old, classic books. They'll learn computers and all that--you can hardly do anything these days without using one. What they need are the basic skills they won't get through computers, and that is accomplished through reading good ol' books and writing.

Actually, I think it's the Christians who have no problem with talking about Hell. I'm one of them, and I love Doom. It's the PC people we gotta' worry about. They are the ones sanitizing our society so that we can't say anything that might remotely offend somebody.