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Re:Ask HN: How much screen time do you let your kids have? by walterbell on Saturday December 13, 2014 @03:53PM (#8746366)
How many pixels of resolution and what latency of screen refresh does your imagination offer? That's what stories offer - a personalized virtual reality with higher resolution than all current tech. Books are a delivery mechanism for stories. Poems offer even more - the brain fills in the blanks.
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Re:Ask HN: How much screen time do you let your kids have? by cma on Saturday December 13, 2014 @04:14PM (#8746440)
Books and poetry? Seems constricting, why not just put your kids in a float tank and let them have free run of their imaginations without the constrictions of words and thoughts of other people. How else will they free themselves of societies biases, man? ಠ_ಠ

Your approach seems almost like saying never take a kid on a trip to the grand canyon or show them a picture or video of it, when you can read them a poem or stage an interpretive dance about the grand canyon instead.

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Re:Ask HN: How much screen time do you let your kids have? by walterbell on Saturday December 13, 2014 @04:28PM (#8746498)
The comparison was books vs. tech, not books vs. reality.
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Re:Ask HN: How much screen time do you let your kids have? by cma on Saturday December 13, 2014 @04:31PM (#8746513)
Banning is a poor substitute for discretion.
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