- Make screen time together time
- Choose age-appropriate content that encourages play
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- Don’t let screens get in the way of parent-child interactions
- Don’t have the TV on in the background
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Anecdotally, I’m seeing a lot of parents with kids as old as 10 in carts at the grocery store, and those kids are sitting there staring at a tablet or a phone.
As young as 2, also.
It’s constant and nonstop and they don’t look up for anything.
I’m concerned.
Even if they were reading a book, a 10 year old in the cart still sounds a bit silly.
I remember being very active as a kid at the super market running “missions” to get items. One time I dropped a jar of tomato sauce on the floor and I felt so bad about it. Another time I remember college kids making fun of me for pushing the cart (to be fair it probably looked quite ridiculous). Now I look back and laugh…
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Don’t be like me, who pretty much spends most of his free time in front of a screen.
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Don’t become absolutely addicted to your screens, like me.
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Don’t spend most of your time inside, like me.
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Profit from not being someone like me. Screen life gets boring after a while.
It’s really tough to get your attention span back, especially if you have an attention disorder. I know that for me it’s so easy to fall back into old habits (like I’m doing now) if life is not going exactly perfectly, cause I just get tired and doing anything else is just too much effort that I already exhaust at work and chores.
I wish you luck in trying to move away from screens, or if you stay on screens, that the time is spent on more memorable activities - movies, TV shows, educational content, documentaries etc.
When my much younger twin cousins were born, my Aunt and Uncle decided to restrict them almost 100% from screens for the first 3 years of their lives, to the point where they would ask people to put their phones away when around them.
At the time, I thought that was a bit extreme, but seeing those two grow into the most active, intelligent, and happy kids I’ve ever met (especially in their generation), I no longer question their parenting methods. There are obviously a ton of other factors and good parenting practices they followed, but seeing the numerous issues “iPad kids” tend to have, I can’t help but feel they were really on to something.
The negative impact a lot of screen time has on kids is very well documented. Basically, even educational shows do basically nothing for young kids. It’s passive and doesn’t help development in any way. Kids benefit a lot more from active exploration, play, and socialization.
“Moral panic” is a phrase reserved for complaints that have no basis in reality.
