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Cool, but what if your son stops watching interesting YT videos and starts playing Fortnite 10 hours a day? And: How old is your son and at what age did you st
by WA 5y ago
Cool, but what if your son stops watching interesting YT videos and starts playing Fortnite 10 hours a day?
And: How old is your son and at what age did you start the unlimited screen time policy?
Because as you say, there is more nuance to screen time. It depends on the kid’s personality, the age, the environment, friends, access to outdoor activities etc.
- nkrisc 5y ago> Cool, but what if your son stops watching interesting YT videos and starts playing Fortnite 10 hours a day? Then something else is wrong. That's not a normal behavior that healthy people do, it's a symptom of some other problem in their life. Thanks to the pandemic, my son has learned that screens can be boring, and it's not all that exciting anymore after too much time. He's learned to put it down and find something else to do. We don't have to enforce screen time anymore, he mostly does it himself.
- throwoutway 5y ago> That's not a normal behavior that healthy people do, it's a symptom of some other problem in their life. Not necessarily. Not when social media and gaming companies hire psychologist PhDs to explicitly entrap children through addictive traits
- rkk3 5y ago> Then something else is wrong. That's not a normal behavior that healthy people do, it's a symptom of some other problem in their life. Not really... games are designed to be incredibly addictive, can be social activities and have much lower physical consequences/withdrawals from misuse. Don't find Rat-Park as a convincing explanation for why high schools boys might prefer Fortnite to Zoom Class.
- rock_hard 5y agoAnd kids will have to learn to deal with that! It’s your job as a parent to provide exposure and teach
- garbagetime 5y agoI tend to agree- at the very least an important hypothesis to consider