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I'll put it blatantly, without citation, and accept the downvotes with love: do not give your 2yo anything that has a screen. Just say no. And yes - licking the
by avip 8y ago
I'll put it blatantly, without citation, and accept the downvotes with love: do not give your 2yo anything that has a screen. Just say no. And yes - licking the floor is order of magnitude healthier for them.
- em-bee 8y agothe only time our 1 year old gets to see the phone screen is on video calls with family and friends
- EvanAnderson 8y agoIt's anecdote, to be sure, but I credit our 5 1/2 y/o daughter's ability to be amused and contented with books, imaginative play, and art (as compared to her cousins and classmates) to our having nearly completely disallowed "screens" in her life. (We even go so far as to plan restaurant seating to keep her back to TVs after we saw her "veg out" when a TV was in her sight line once.) In the last year we've let her watch some YouTube cooking videos in a supervised setting, and she and I have started working thru some educational titles on my old Apple IIgs. We've tried very hard to avoid "twitch" stimulus, if only because I have an unscientific belief that such stimulus "dulls" ones' sense of novelty. (I know that I find myself struggling to deal with "slower" movies and video games that I enjoyed when I was younger.)