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.
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.