Re:Parents in Ireland town to voluntarily ban smartphones fo...
by pizza234 on Monday June 05, 2023 @04:42AM
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> Most adults are capable of managing themselves.
Adults are children in first place, and children model themselves a lot from parents.
There's certainly a significant randomness at play, and it's admirable when adults manage to deviate from problems of their parents, but exposure to them ultimately presents a high risk factor, if one wants to put in mathematical terms.
Screen time is actually a very concrete problem in the context of parenting. There's again significant randomness at play (I myself grew up watching lots of TV), but at the end of the day - literally, what happened during a given day - the difference in educational quality between households with and without¹ screens, is night and day².
¹=with "without" I mean extremely limited quantities of screen (no tvs, no internet, not checking out smartphones etc.etc.).
²=there is certainly a spectrum of screen time content in terms of quality, but the vast majority is garbage.
Adults are children in first place, and children model themselves a lot from parents.
There's certainly a significant randomness at play, and it's admirable when adults manage to deviate from problems of their parents, but exposure to them ultimately presents a high risk factor, if one wants to put in mathematical terms.
Screen time is actually a very concrete problem in the context of parenting. There's again significant randomness at play (I myself grew up watching lots of TV), but at the end of the day - literally, what happened during a given day - the difference in educational quality between households with and without¹ screens, is night and day².
¹=with "without" I mean extremely limited quantities of screen (no tvs, no internet, not checking out smartphones etc.etc.).
²=there is certainly a spectrum of screen time content in terms of quality, but the vast majority is garbage.