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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]

For our family, yes. My son doesnt have a Kindle, a phone, or Ipad. No DEVICES at home. He does watch TV but its limited and we watch low stim TV, sports, or movies. School, in our experience this year, uses screens to motivate, will gift time if they finish early, if they are ahead of their peers and done with certain aspects then they get told to do "math" games. Not reading, not writing, not self-study, not drawing, not coloring, not origami, not higher-level lessons or instruction...its the chromebook. Always. [/quote]

OP says she is going to the home of a friend and the kid can't eat without a screen. The school isn't giving this kid a screen. It's at home.

It sounds like you have a valid complaint about excessive screen use at your child's school. That's the topic for another thread. That has nothing to do with OP noticing kids who can't even eat at home without having a screen.[/quote]

Eh, I bet OP texted this rant from her friend’s dinner table.

I refuse to entertain the pearl clutching judgements of a bunch of screen addicted gossipy grown women. [/quote]

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