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Re:Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 t... by comboy on Thursday December 26, 2019 @05:28PM (#21887387)
The world is complex. And that's why division between screen time and real world at this age makes sense. You let many more brain areas develop when you can touch stuff, move it around with many more degrees of freedom, you have way more complex visual stuff to analyse at different focal lengths and so on. It's quite well documented.

But of course, do parent your own children. You are the optimisation function. You may value abstract thinking higher than spatial imagination dexterity etc.

Re:Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 t... by robbrown451 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:36PM (#21887816)
"You may value abstract thinking higher than spatial imagination dexterity etc."

I don't think they are mutually exclusive. I mean, here's typical examples of my kid taking in some screen time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z492IPHZTUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khU5A6Y1dk4

Re:Show HN: Made this with my daughter to help kids ages 2 t... by comboy on Friday December 27, 2019 @06:38AM (#21890750)
Haha, fair enough.