It'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 co

It'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.)