most happy and healthy kids have a unique desire to learn and trying to suppress that is unhealthy
things like screen time, finish your plate, etc
screen time is just a limit on time to learn if the kid is using it for the right purposes which you should teach them to
“finish your plate” I was never told that as a kid and I devour anything that is given to me
The screens are designed to be addicting. That’s not hyperbole. They literally use data scientists to increase the amount of time and money you spend on them. The longer you scroll, the more time you’re playing the game, the more money the developers make on average. Online service providers don’t care about your wellbeing. Your parents do. Just like there’s more food than chips and cake, there’s more to life than being on a screen. Investing in long term hobbies, skills, and friendships won’t have the instant gratification to compete with a video game, but 10 years from now you will think back way more fondly on your hours skateboarding or learning to play guitar than the ones you lost online.
depends on the way you use it
as a kid, most of the times I WASNT playing video games but accessing free digital information
and I could wire up an esp32 to a 3 inch display and it’d be a “SCREEN”
and if you use a FOSS enviroment like graphene, this doesnt apply
I “lost online” are you kidding me? I would be homeless and destitute right now if I didnt have the skills I learned from SCREENS as a kid
all of this only applies if you consume TechSlop
You’re totally amazing and stuff but I’m sure you realise that most kids aren’t using their devices to learn.
Obviously, if a kid was reading wikipedia like you did then their parent would relax the screen time rule.
I’m glad you dropped by to tell us all how special you are but I dont really understand the point of this post.
