At the end of the day, the more you can engage with your kid, the better — but modest amounts of shows, games, etc are not going to ruin their life. Sometimes p

At the end of the day, the more you can engage with your kid, the better — but modest amounts of shows, games, etc are not going to ruin their life. Sometimes parents need a break, so they can be at their best the other 99% of the time. That’s ok! It’s ok to find a middle way between plopping a kid down in front of the TV for three to six hours a day (familiar to me and probably a lot of people who grew up in the 80s and 90s), and stressing that screens will roy their brains and ruin their chance at getting into Stanford two decades from now.