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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][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]
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I am at a public library right now and have seen at least as st 15 kids. The only ones on a screen are playing games on the library computers. Don't get me started on my rant about why someone thought it would be good to provide video games for kids to play in a library[/quote]

Our library also has a whole bank of computers just for children smack dab in the middle front area of the kids section. It's crazy. Can't even go to the library to have a low screen area! To get to picture books, chapter books, story time, or the librarian's desk, you have to pass about 10 computer screens, usually full of elementary aged students who were dropped off by parents to spend time at the library, or full of even younger kids with their nanny or parent.[/quote]

Exactly. I am one of those parents with a younger kid who gravitates towards the computer. The fact that it is there means I can either prohibit DC from using the computer, leading to a fight, or let her use it and hope we can read a book after she finishes. Honestly when we first started going to the library I did think that the computers could be valuable educational tools. If I had known then what I know now I would have told her from a young age she isn't allowed to use them. Now she associates the library with computer games.[/quote]

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