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I think that like everything, there's a balance to be struck. I want my kid to develop skills of interacting with the physical world and with physical people. B

I think that like everything, there's a balance to be struck. I want my kid to develop skills of interacting with the physical world and with physical people. But I also want her prepared to enter a world of technology with full fluency. And there are a lot of things that are actually well learned via screen media. I think about how valuable video games were to my development and how little enthusiasm my parents had for my interest in them. For the past several generations, each generation has encountered entirely new forms of media and technology that revolutionize social and economic processes. Each preceding generation confronts that change with full-scale freak out. Everything in moderation. It'll all probably be okay.

icc97 8y ago
> I want my kid to develop skills of interacting with the physical world and with physical people. I came across a fascinating BBC article on treating ADHD with music [0] > "The ability to time, to synchronise with others underlies all face to face communication," says Khalil. "People imagine that synchronizing is doing something simultaneously. But synchronizing actually means processing time together - perceiving time together in such a way that we have this common understanding of how time is passing." [0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21661689 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21661689