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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone think this thread is funny because it's on DCUM? I mean a whole bunch of parents waxing poetic about the evils of screens and the internet on an internet board?

My kids are older and I'm not screen free so I probably don't have much to add to this conversation except that my kids are both in high school and both good kids. I don't regret my very relaxed screen time policy.

Of course, I have other parenting regrets or things I feel like I could have done better (for example, my kids are kind of picky eaters - I should have exposed or otherwise forced more variety) but I do think this whole thing is funny and is a bunch of parents who love the internet trying to convince their kids it's not ok.

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No, it makes sense to me. There is plenty of stuff that adults do which is not appropriate for kids. There have been studies on how screentime is detrimental to babies, toddlers, adolescents... the brain is still developing during each of those periods, in basic ways. Excessive screentime can interfere with that. As for most adults on here, remember they were raised at a different time. Email started in the late 90s and smart phones even later. Social media in the 2000s. Use your common sense about the effects of allowing young children on largely unregulated platforms.[/quote]

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