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No it isn’t. Sending them outside all day doesn’t involve screens. My kids go out and bike all day with friends. They go watch soccer games, go to playgrounds. Hike in the woods behind the houses. Sometimes play capture the flag in the cul de sac.  [b]There are no need for screens or any structure when you have friends. [/b]That is the part parents seem to forget. The hours of endless fun you had with friends. Learning to be yourself instead of a robot on a parent schedule.  My son is 9 this year and is old enough to bike to the pool on his own with friends. 8 is the youngest for our pool, but most parents won’t let them go that young. This year he has 3 other friends allowed. So excited for him! [/quote]

Specifically, friends within walking distance. Plus a cul-de-sac, a stay-at-home parent, a pool membership, a pool and playgrounds and ball fields all within walking/biking distance, woods behind houses...[/quote]

That was a choice you made when you decided to rent or purchase your home.  If you live in an apartment or condo, there is always a playground and a ton of kids around.  Don't you have school buses?  Aren't kids on them or at the bus stop?  The pool is over a mile away.  Easy on a bike.  You rationalization why they need to stay couped up in a house staring at screens is pretty sad.  Is that what you did as a kid?  [/quote]

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