FWIW, I learned to read in order to load the Thomas The Tank Engine game from the CD drive via MS-DOS - and I went and spent most of my time on music and litera

FWIW, I learned to read in order to load the Thomas The Tank Engine game from the CD drive via MS-DOS - and I went and spent most of my time on music and literature until I got into my tech in my late twenties. I think it's fine providing they're getting all the other fun creative IRL stuff too :)