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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Our neighbor is 6 and the parents have a hard time getting him away from TV, iPhone, and video games -- he gets extremely upset when these are taken away. A few years of them needing more attention now is worth it to me because I don't want to deal with endless battles about screentime later on and with all the issues that can bring. [/quote]

That's not a screen or device problem, it's a discipline problem.  My 8 year old doesn't like TV much, but he does love minecraft.  He can't play during the week, but we are pretty generous with minecraft on weekends - he can play an hour each day, and an hour and a half if he reads for more than an hour in the day.  We measure his time fairly, but when it is up it is up and that's that.  There's no point in him getting upset, because all that causes is the loss of time on a subsequent day.  It's not a battle or an issue and never has been.[/quote]

It's part both.  The added screen time becomes addictive.  I recommend reading on the science of addiction and video games/screen time.  The neural receptors that are affected by drugs, etc. are the same ones that are affected by too much screen time.  I[b]t starts off as a discipline problem and ends up an addiction/screen problem.[/b][/quote]

PP here. Yup, exactly this. It gets even harder when you add a social networking component in (many games for older kids have this). They are living in an another world. You have some control at 8, will you at 12? At 17? When your kid goes to college, and doesn't attend class because they're playing games all day? These games and social media platforms are designed using proven psychological techniques to be maximally addictive. It is a real problem to give them to children whose brains aren't quite developed yet. My personal feeling is that we need to give kids a chance to deal with themselves, other people, and the real world -- we need to give them the freedom and autonomy to explore reality without the added burden of addictions this young. The only people it really benefits to give kids access to these things are adults. This is NOT for the benefit of the kid, no matter how you spin it.[/quote]

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