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I have a friend who was always the best in his class at Uni and has become a lead doctor in a major hospital. He once told me that he used to watch roughly 2-3

by baxtr 5y ago

I have a friend who was always the best in his class at Uni and has become a lead doctor in a major hospital. He once told me that he used to watch roughly 2-3 hrs of television on any day when he was a kid because his parents needed to work all the time. He turned out just fine. I remember back in the day television was the bad guy in town. I wonder if iPads aren’t much better since they foster interaction and not just dull watching.

fragmede 5y ago
Please define what you mean by "just fine". "Just fine" is what parents who abused their kids say. Those kids later go to therapy to understand their treatment was abusive and to deal with it, and they don't turn out just fine, they turn out traumatized. I really have no idea what the situation is, but "they turned out just fine" is to abused kids the same as saying the phrase "calm down" in a heightened situation doesn't do shit to calm the situation down.
- croes 5y ago
  Just fine this is the assessment of the previous poster, not that of his friend's parents. You can't devalue that just because abusive parents use similar words. And I doubt that abusive parents have a unique wording so you can't infer abuse from certain phrases.
WA 5y ago
Or maybe you suffer from survivorship bias. I mean, anecdotes are nice and all, but totally useless in determining whether unlimited screen time has negative effects or not. And my educated guess is: it depends.
pram 5y ago
That’s how I was raised, and I turned out TV.
Grustaf 5y ago
He might be fine now, but he missed 2-3 hours of childhood per day. If I had to give up either my well paid job today, or my happy childhood playing outside, I would definitely be poor now.
yesenadam 5y ago
> he used to watch roughly 2-3 hrs of television on any day Surprising comment, that this is seen is unusual! I grew up in the 70s-80s (in Australia). 2-3 hours would've been pretty much universal, I think, and more likely to be >3 than <2. And half or more of it really, really bad. I've never admitted to anyone some of those deeply crappy US series from the 80s I watched, and am not starting now! Yeah, I turned out fine.. but all those hours watching crap. The movies/series had ads in them too, a lot of them. I've been trying to make up for that, by watching just good/great stuff from around the world, no ads, during the last 10 years: see http://www.adamponting.com/movies/ http://www.adamponting.com/movies/

by baxtr 5y ago

fragmede 5y ago

Please define what you mean by "just fine". "Just fine" is what parents who abused their kids say. Those kids later go to therapy to understand their treatment was abusive and to deal with it, and they don't turn out just fine, they turn out traumatized. I really have no idea what the situation is, but "they turned out just fine" is to abused kids the same as saying the phrase "calm down" in a heightened situation doesn't do shit to calm the situation down.

croes 5y ago
Just fine this is the assessment of the previous poster, not that of his friend's parents. You can't devalue that just because abusive parents use similar words. And I doubt that abusive parents have a unique wording so you can't infer abuse from certain phrases.

WA 5y ago

Or maybe you suffer from survivorship bias. I mean, anecdotes are nice and all, but totally useless in determining whether unlimited screen time has negative effects or not. And my educated guess is: it depends.

pram 5y ago

That’s how I was raised, and I turned out TV.

Grustaf 5y ago

He might be fine now, but he missed 2-3 hours of childhood per day. If I had to give up either my well paid job today, or my happy childhood playing outside, I would definitely be poor now.

yesenadam 5y ago

> he used to watch roughly 2-3 hrs of television on any day Surprising comment, that this is seen is unusual! I grew up in the 70s-80s (in Australia). 2-3 hours would've been pretty much universal, I think, and more likely to be >3 than <2. And half or more of it really, really bad. I've never admitted to anyone some of those deeply crappy US series from the 80s I watched, and am not starting now! Yeah, I turned out fine.. but all those hours watching crap. The movies/series had ads in them too, a lot of them. I've been trying to make up for that, by watching just good/great stuff from around the world, no ads, during the last 10 years: see http://www.adamponting.com/movies/ http://www.adamponting.com/movies/