Screen Time

I don’t know from research but my 10-year-old finishes a book every two days, knows large chunks of the Bible by heart, composes poetry, writes and draws graphic novels, and the other day she spent 5 hours cleaning and decorating her room and creating beautiful little installations for her book case. I have no idea how giving her a smartphone would have improved her life, so this fellow can stick his research up his.

The only criterion of doing something with your kid is how this will be helpful to the kid. “It’s not as bad as some people say” is a terrible operating principle. Show me how it’s good and makes her life better because my method is bringing excellent results and I see no reason to abandon it.

7 responses to “Screen Time”

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    Anonymous

    “Most” and “often” are carrying a lot of water there.

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  2. cliff arroyo Avatar

    “not as bad as some people say” is a terrible operating principle”

    A longitudinal study found that children whose parents randomly threw live crabs at them during dinner (no less than once a week and no more than three times a week) suffered no measurabl long term affects.

    Pass the crabs!

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    Anonymous

    “some people”

    A scientific measure if ever I saw one!

    -ethyl

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      oldcowboy3

      methylethyl

      Actually, scientific measurements could remove a few annoying behaviors ;-D

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    Anonymous

    Wow! Is Klara 10 already?

    As she likes reading, maybe she would enjoy reading one of my books — see here:

    https://methodius.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-enchanted-grove.html

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Snapchat is the absolute worst. My colleagues who have teenage children say it’s a curse.

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