or less access to nature. when I was a kid we just played in the woods. Build (dangerous) rafts and tree houses. I once cam back from fetching nails to find my friend Tony face down in the water below the treehouse (miracle he didn't drown). He nose broke[en] his fall.
how much of the “problematic high screentime youth” thing is a product of the screen vs. simply having parents with limited resources and therefore less time for parentinghttps://twitter.com/BenSasse/status/1063402222762016769 …
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My mental model is it's 60% blind generational panic, 20% a proxy for parental neglect, and 20% we actually did make some better time wasters than old fashioned TV.
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That said, the whole "screen time" moniker is pointless. You do lots of stuff on screens. Some of them are useful, some are not. Without nuance you're not helping.
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I used to think this until I saw rich kids with hands-on parents lose all desire to play outside or even with analog toys & lose their damn minds whenever an iPad entered a 1-mile radius
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Not all kids respond like that but it’s a bitch to try to undo and it’s not clear the upside is worth it, especially for very young kids
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