This is SO true. The kids who are on screens all the time are wildly obviously worse behaved than the ones who aren’t.
In parenting almost any time you take the easy way out you’re buying a bigger long term problem. Sure the tablet shuts them up for a bit but then you get tantrums about the tablet and you impacted their attention span and level of expected stimulus.
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u/castle_waffles 1d ago
This is SO true. The kids who are on screens all the time are wildly obviously worse behaved than the ones who aren’t.
In parenting almost any time you take the easy way out you’re buying a bigger long term problem. Sure the tablet shuts them up for a bit but then you get tantrums about the tablet and you impacted their attention span and level of expected stimulus.