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[quote=Anonymous]There was a discussion here a week ago about kids who stay on a screen during a visit "being good" and what that means. I think it's clear that a lot of people think of any behavior that's not destructive or actively annoying as "being good," so that's part of it-- a kid quietly using a screen and doing nothing else is deemed "good" by a lot of people. Fine.

But I also know a lot of people who seem to be [i]proud[/i] of the behavior, and I don't really get it.

I don't mean proud of what they might be learning. I might not be personally impressed, or think it's worth the drawbacks, but it isn't illogical to me for a parent to brag about how their kid learned the difference between moths and butterflies from a nature show, or how he learned to read CAC words from an iPad app. That makes a sort of sense.

But what I mean are parents who think the kid is really doing something brag-worthy by simply being quiet and unobtrusive while using a screen in a public place, or on a long trip, or whatever. Do they think it takes willpower or some sort of extraordinary skill to be absorbed in a screen? I mean-- [i]does [/i]it take special skill? It seems to me that this skill is possessed by the vast majority of kids, but maybe that's a sign of progress as a species? Or something? [/quote]

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