Kids Screen Time

I'm not a professionnal, but i've worked with kids for years before going into CS and development, and i have a surpising advice:Screen are OK.What you want is your kid to experiment. Constantly, with different things. Even doing nothing for some time can be stimulating, if you're with them. TV, radio, music on the background is a good idea (maybe mixing the medias a bit). Having stuff to look at (animated images!) is nice.The danger is cutting off social relationships an

I agree.It is interesting to speculate of what will be the end result in terms of learned behaviors. I was born without computers near me so I and I became obsessed with them as I was starting teenage years. Because of this, I can handle excessive boredom and I can find something amusing for myself without relying on someone force feeding me content they deem appropriate for me. I am not sure future adults will be able to sit still without a screen.To be fair, my parents were about as worr

I’m about same age as you and I don’t remember spending much if any time with my parents. The same goes for all the kids I knew. Most of us kids played with each other or toys we had around the house. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents but even there nobody played with me. We did go to parks often so there was joint activities but they were very hands off.These days I am a father to a 1 year old and I’ve been spending a lot of time with him (work from home on my own schedule). My worry

Here's a link to read: https://archive.ph/vj2PvWhile I love seeing these stories about kids moderating their screentime and seeing the benefits, I worry equally as much as the early generations who grew up with an abundance of screentime (TV, Video Games, Early Internet).I think all categories of screentime are considered addictions and I wonder if distance away from them for extended periods of time h

Two children, 5 and 3. No limits on screen time whatsoever, they watch TV, or Netflix on PS4, or play mario on the Wii U, or play snakes and ladders, etc.If I ever see them go 'full retard' with the screen usage I would step in, but they have never really gotten that far. They always find time to play between them: play fights, bowling with their toy pins, playing with the dog, etc.I don't really believe in that type of parenting where you control each and every second of th

how can you do this! most of kids after they first get their infinite screen time spend all of time on play mobil games and watch YouTube funny videos.... my family just gave up, we just think every kid are in same condition.

Limiting screen time for kids under ten is a bad idea?

i dont think it's the screens: it's the apps _on_ those screensif you give a kid a screen with creative stuff / Mario Maker installed, that's what they'll playif you give them a screen with Youtube installed, that's what they'll watchi think the goal should be to curate their experiences, as zealously as a museum curator manages their exhibitions

Totally agree.My other related hobby horse is parenting. I have seen so many people who literally mentality handicapped their children by giving them tablets instead of raising them so that they can watch TV or surf the web themselves.American parents watch an average of 4 hours of TV per day.Alternatively, I have friends who don't have tvs or tablets in their house and the developmental differences are night and day.

I concur with this.I decided that I would not enforce a time limitation on screen time, but actually forced myself to be parted of my kids activities, either in or outside of screen time, and in fact he doesn't really care much about multimedia content, occasionally plays some video games with me, and most of the time he just loves to play with his toys, draw and construct paper figures.It might be because just chance, but I notice that my kid doesn't care as much about this kind