Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com:
Against limiting screen time
🧠 Screens as a natural, integrated, positive part of life
👾 In defence of screens and video games
🧬 Imposed limits create more desire for the limited thing. D’oh! What happens when there are no limits?
🌀 A reply to: “Screens are not natural. They rot our brains. They’re addictive!”
🥶 Getting kids to ‘agree’ to screen time limits
❇️ What if I have an aversion to the iPad/TV/video games but my child enjoys screen time?
🤢 How parents coercively curb their children’s desire for increased screen time
⚠️ Limiting your children’s screen time? Why you might want to rethink that.
🥵 How holding to the screen time limit looks when you switch the context
🍎 “If I let them have unlimited screen time they would watch trash tv all the time and never learn anything!” Actually, even the junkiest of junk tv can be genuinely educational.
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