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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am well aware of the exceptions:

We only had a few minutes to talk and needed out toddler to be quiet.
Our toddler has XYZ diagnosis.
And on and on.

But the research is there and the pendulum is swinging the other way. There are few legitimate reasons to prop up a screen in front of your 13 month old at cava while you lunch with your partner. It’s 20 minutes tops.

Knock it off, people.
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For all you know the woman is with that child all day long and this is her chance to have a break and enjoy an adult conversation. The screen is then a short-lived treat for the child? 20 minutes. Not only are you ridiculously judgmental but you have a screw loose to post this kind of screed.[/quote]

Is this a Gen Z parenting thing? It is literally your job as the child's parent to keep an eye on them all day long, even while having an adult conversation. Somehow our parents managed this and their parents this, but a 30 year old can't. GROW UP.[/quote]

Lol no Boomer parents+ very much did not keep an eye on their kids all day long. That’s some revisionist thinking. Kids weren’t at the fast food place because mom probably left them at home with their gaggle of older siblings. Or they took them to an all night arcade so they could gamble in a casino. And the little girl who died was not the only kid left unattended back then … and “back then” was the mid-90s, meaning it was solid Millennials being left alone. https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/7-year-old-girls-murder-at-nevada-casino-still-haunts-20-years-later/amp/[/quote]

This is a ridiculous point. I just this morning read a news story about two parents who are going to prison for dosing their kid with Benadryl so they could have ‘quality time’ with each other - sadly they lost track of who dosed her last so she died, bummer.

Abusive and neglectful parents have ALWAYS existed and there are plenty of them today, faces stuck in their phones playing candy crush and scrolling porn sites while their kiddos go unattended- or roast to death in the driveway in the family car.

Putting screens in front of toddlers for any length of time is bad parenting. Letting pre schoolers grade schoolers middle schoolers or high schoolers spend hours daily on screens is negligent. The science is settled already and we should all be working to limit and curb this culture of screens at home and school both.[/quote]

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