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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think part of it is that to survive these days, most families have to have both parents working. It’s very difficult to get by on a single income.

And I think when neither parent spends full days with their kids, they don’t develop the skills needed to parent them effectively. So they go the path of least resistance, let them have screens, snowplow for them, do what they need to do to get through the day. [/quote]

I think studies show that stay at home moms in earlier eras spent less time with their kids not more.

To me, the bigger issue is that kids can no longer roam outside independently, so they expect their parents to act as entertainers. Parents can't possibly keep that up, so screens. [/quote]

NP. This, and also social media has made parents much more invested in engineering and managing their kids’ friendships, so they can tag the “right” families in trick-or-treating photos, or whatever. When all the kids used to roam the neighborhood independently, everyone played with everyone. It was just a matter of who you ran into, not who your parents thought you should play with. This leaves us with a lot of lonely kids these days, so again, screens.[/quote]

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