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"Nowadays every kid watches cartoons on YouTube". Well, no. (Here comes my 2cts) Recently, at the age of seven, my son discovered how the remote control work
by Xoros 9y ago
"Nowadays every kid watches cartoons on YouTube".
Well, no.
(Here comes my 2cts)
Recently, at the age of seven, my son discovered how the remote control works. He was proud that he figured it all by himself.
And I was proud that my son discovered that at the age of seven and not at the age of two or three.
When my children wakes up in the morning they don't switch the tv on or any other screen.
They play.
They build stuff with Lego or wood game. They draw. They go in the garden to play with the dog or with their bikes.
Of course they sometimes play a game on my tablet or telephone, it's not 20th century anymore.
But they don't own any. And they don't choose when they can watch a screen. (Steve Jobs did the same with his children after all [0])
Despite that, I will start to teach them programming next school year, I've bought a PI for each, and I welcome the article ! It's just I think this is important, but not a priority for youngs.
[0] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-app...
- bendmorris 9y ago>Steve Jobs did the same with his children after all Is there any reason to believe that Steve Jobs is an authority on raising children?
- Theodores 9y agoSteve Jobs was famous for his reality not being the same as everyone else's initial idea of what reality should be. This would have been an enforceable rule, a decree to be obeyed by nanny. So ideals from Steve Jobs could be valid even if delegation was involved.
- gcb0 9y agohe forbid his kid from drinking milk and many other harmless foods. I guess that is not even an outlinner in California... but still
- kodt 9y agoDidn't he famously deny paternity for his first daughter until she was around 9 years old?
- CharlesW 9y ago> When my children wakes up in the morning they don't switch the tv on or any other screen. They play. It seems like you may be conflating the medium with the activity, and that you're not a fan of exposing kids to computing devices until relatively late. Which is fine, of course! Good parenting comes in many forms. That said, I don't feel bad that my son prefers playing/building in Minecraft to Lego (although he does that too) and started relatively early. For us, any activity that isn't passive media consumption is a win.
- gertef 9y agoAs long as you are providing ample opportunity to develop a range of fine-motor skills, and 3-D visual perception at many ranges of distance, and interactive spoken communication, and not fixing gaze at a single distance for extended periods of time.
- CharlesW 9y agoAn important point, yes. Screen time can't be all there is, and we use Circle[1] to monitor and manage it. [1] https://meetcircle.com/ https://meetcircle.com/
- Xoros 9y agoAs stated my kids are only 7 yo and don't have their own devices yet, so I haven't got any experience in monitoring their screen time other than be careful about it on a daily basis. But I guess when they grow up and have the opportunity to access it, say, in their bedroom, something like that might actually be useful. So thank you for the tip !