I get what you’re saying. I still think it’s appropriate to consider screen time negative, though. I think if you had two parents and one threw a screen in front of their kid and the other thought twice about it because someone told them it was bad, and they did something else, or even just let their kid be bored, the second kid would be less damaged. So I’m going with the practical reality.
I’m playing that balancing act already. They like watching TV, or a tablet, but it’s not their life’s entertainment. They use it to help decompress, before moving on to something better, when they have the energy.
Nicotine is a useful pesticide, so I would actually partially agree with you.
Kids watching excessive TV is a symptom of a larger problem. The negative effects mostly come from those problems, not the screen time itself.
I get what you’re saying. I still think it’s appropriate to consider screen time negative, though. I think if you had two parents and one threw a screen in front of their kid and the other thought twice about it because someone told them it was bad, and they did something else, or even just let their kid be bored, the second kid would be less damaged. So I’m going with the practical reality.
I’m playing that balancing act already. They like watching TV, or a tablet, but it’s not their life’s entertainment. They use it to help decompress, before moving on to something better, when they have the energy.