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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Screens themselves aren't the problem. Problem is the amount of time kids/teens spend in front of them. [b]They're wasting their childhoods[/b].[/quote]

I mean unfortunately there really isn't much to do in childhood. Older millennials, Gen X, Boomers, all had childhoods where we ran feral. I spent all day outside with the neighborhood kids. H used to walk to and from school by age 6, including crossing busy streets, and would stop to get a pop at the store and play in the creek.

Now we can't really let kids do that. I don't - it's wildly unsafe where I live between cars and sketchy people. I can drive my kids to activities or places like the library but they can't go to those places on their own. We try to do playdates and go to parks but people are busy and usually can't make it.

I would love if we re-structured society so that neighborhoods with kids had places for them to get together and play, things were within walking distance, parents worked less, etc. but I don't see that happening in our lifetime. [/quote]

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