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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm guilty of defaulting to an iPad as a babysitter from time to time, but my kid is happy, has friends, scores in the 99th percentile on MAP tests, and plays multiple sports. They've also learned a lot of random but cool stuff on YouTube Kids, especially interesting science. It's not ideal, but probably not much worse than the bad TV I watched in the 90s. [/quote]

There’s a difference between occasionally handing your kid the iPad as a babysitter and letting them constantly be on screens.[/quote]

The vast majority of parents are not "letting them constantly be on screens." Every single parent I know works hard to limit screens in some way. Some more than others but nobody I know has zero limits.[/quote]

Do you ever leave your house? All around you are young kids on screens in places where they should be interacting with others or observing the world. I saw a four year old holding the phone in both hands and watching something while walking on a sidewalk yesterday. Kids on phones at restaurants. In grocery stores. At parks. Most parents are not judiciously using screens.[/quote]

Why don’t you interact with your own kids instead of scrutinizing strangers? You’re not making a good case, you know.[/quote]

You don't need to scrutinize anything to see that a kid at a park is looking at a phone.

The fact that people like you are so desperate to attack people for noticing what's happening in the world is suspicious.[/quote]

Yes we all know screens exist

But I don't know where you are where most kids you see are on screens. When I walk to school with my kid, go to the playground, go to the pool, I see zero kids on screens[/quote]

DP. I wouldn’t say most kids, but I see it frequently, too… in the grocery store cart, waiting at a restaurant, at a sibling’s sports event… small kids are handed screens rather than having a parent talk with them, give them a coloring book, read to them, or give them a non-digital toy. [/quote]
That's not constant. You may disagree with the choice to give kids screens in those situations, I certainly try to avoid it, but to jump to the notion that kids are constantly on screens based on this is preposterous
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Dp. A lot of these kids are on screens constantly. Ask your kid's teacher. They'll tell you.[/quote]

Because the freaking schools FORCE KIDs to use screens! Seriously, get a clue and then get a life.[/quote]

Schools are the reason kids are constantly on screens? [/quote]

Schools certainly don’t help. My kids are all forced to use screens both at school and after school to do their schoolwork.

But I reject your premise that kids are “constantly” on screens. And you are obviously not setting a good example as a parent if you think screentime is horrible. Put your phone down and go play with your kids.[/quote]

Yep- the only screen time my kid gets is at school. And they use the games to motivate them. And as soon as they finish work they can then spend X minutes on the chromebook.
I HATE it. [/quote]

Ugh I’m so glad my kids’ school is tech-free. It’s hard enough for my daughter to focus without being trained to expect screen time every time she finishes an academic task…[/quote]

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