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[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]

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