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"What we quickly found was that (surprising no one at all, least of all us) kids have way more time on their hands and are willing to expend way more energy to
by guyzero 7y ago
"What we quickly found was that (surprising no one at all, least of all us) kids have way more time on their hands and are willing to expend way more energy to remove blockers than parents do to enforce them."
this this this.
limiting screen time isn't a technical issue, it's an economic issue - kids and parents have different levels of effort they're willing to expend to deal with these limits. Ultimately the kid needs to incentivized to conform to the limit set by the parent.
- krustyburger 7y agoAn essential truth of parenting is that much of the dynamic between parent and child actually involves the child incentivizing the parent, or at least trying to.
- BrandonWatson 7y agoThere's a great scene from the show Modern Family where one of the parents threatens to ground the kid by taking away their iPad. The child's response was perfect: "that's going to affect you way more than it affects me."