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Actual objects don't teach this sort of thing. They may well teach other things. I encourage you to parent your own children. HN users are typically adults and

Actual objects don't teach this sort of thing. They may well teach other things. I encourage you to parent your own children. HN users are typically adults and can make their own decisions on whether some screen time for their kids is ok, and what sort of screen time. Doing a logic puzzle is not, in my opinion, the same as going from video to video of squeaky voiced ladies with brightly colored nails opening toy eggs on YouTube. Is it ok if my daughter videochats with relatives? Or is that screen time and therefore bad? Is it ok is she draws with crayons? Crayons and paper may be "actual objects", but the images she creates are no more "actual" than the pixels on a screen. The world is a lot more complex and subtle than just dividing things into "screen time" and "real world".

eitland 7y ago
Just finished watching a film about Magnus Carlsen and how early he started and one of my key takeaways was that getting extremely good in chess actually helped him do well in other aspects of life as well. Then of course his family doesn't seem to be pushing him, rather than supporting him, and if they had been pushing him hard into this it could possibly had a totally different outcome.
- jonny_eh 7y ago
  > getting extremely good in her s gqme actually helped huh?
  - RandomBacon 7y ago
    My guess at a correction: 'good in her game'
    - eitland 7y ago
      Should of course be "good in his game". I have rewritten it. I'll leave it to you to figure out my opinion of autocorrect ;-)
- avip 7y ago
  Have you seen the documentary about all the other kids who've started chess very early?
  - eitland 7y ago
    No, is there one?
    - ghostbrainalpha 7y ago
      I'm not sure if the comment you responded to was a sarcastic joke or a reference to this documentary. Chess Kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK0vtFkm7mE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK0vtFkm7mE
comboy 7y ago
The world is complex. And that's why division between screen time and real world at this age makes sense. You let many more brain areas develop when you can touch stuff, move it around with many more degrees of freedom, you have way more complex visual stuff to analyse at different focal lengths and so on. It's quite well documented. But of course, do parent your own children. You are the optimisation function. You may value abstract thinking higher than spatial imagination dexterity etc.
- robbrown451 7y ago
  "You may value abstract thinking higher than spatial imagination dexterity etc." I don't think they are mutually exclusive. I mean, here's typical examples of my kid taking in some screen time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z492IPHZTUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z492IPHZTUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khU5A6Y1dk4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khU5A6Y1dk4
  - comboy 7y ago
    Haha, fair enough.

eitland 7y ago

Just finished watching a film about Magnus Carlsen and how early he started and one of my key takeaways was that getting extremely good in chess actually helped him do well in other aspects of life as well. Then of course his family doesn't seem to be pushing him, rather than supporting him, and if they had been pushing him hard into this it could possibly had a totally different outcome.

jonny_eh 7y ago
> getting extremely good in her s gqme actually helped huh?
- RandomBacon 7y ago
  My guess at a correction: 'good in her game'
  - eitland 7y ago
    Should of course be "good in his game". I have rewritten it. I'll leave it to you to figure out my opinion of autocorrect ;-)
avip 7y ago
Have you seen the documentary about all the other kids who've started chess very early?
- eitland 7y ago
  No, is there one?
  - ghostbrainalpha 7y ago
    I'm not sure if the comment you responded to was a sarcastic joke or a reference to this documentary. Chess Kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK0vtFkm7mE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK0vtFkm7mE

comboy 7y ago

The world is complex. And that's why division between screen time and real world at this age makes sense. You let many more brain areas develop when you can touch stuff, move it around with many more degrees of freedom, you have way more complex visual stuff to analyse at different focal lengths and so on. It's quite well documented. But of course, do parent your own children. You are the optimisation function. You may value abstract thinking higher than spatial imagination dexterity etc.

robbrown451 7y ago
"You may value abstract thinking higher than spatial imagination dexterity etc." I don't think they are mutually exclusive. I mean, here's typical examples of my kid taking in some screen time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z492IPHZTUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z492IPHZTUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khU5A6Y1dk4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khU5A6Y1dk4
- comboy 7y ago
  Haha, fair enough.