In raising kids the biggest enemy is tablets and smartphones. They come in handy for road and airplane trips but they stand on the way of crafts, physical exercise, playing musical instruments, doing art. Digital makes kids find physical"boring".
As a father of 7 I have seen this challenge worsen. With the older kids it was video consoles and that was much easier to control with time limits. But iPads for example are given by schools and it's hard to know what kids are doing. Smartphones can be communication or games.
And I don't blame kids because once they have the iPads to tell them not to play games is like taking a child to the ice cream store and telling him you can't have ice cream. It is there! The school that my kids go to has just come up with a very strict policy.
No smartphones allowed at school for any reason. Kids who smuggle smartphones are given suspensions or eventually expelled. They created a smartphone free environment that is conducive to conversations and play.
Humans learn through experimentation, especially young kids, touching things, predicting their motion, learning sports, learning arts and crafts, calligraphy, all these improve our overall capabilities to grow intellectually. The physical world and the brain and tied in learning.
The Communist government of China, whom I frequently disagree, passed a measure that I felt was spot on in this regard. Authoritarianism is not what we need but with kids, if you let them do whatever they want to do, the outcomes are far from ideal cnbc.com/2021/08/30/chi…
The solution we have found with Nina is targeted time limits on iPad support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304
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