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> Tik Tok for her would be a necessary evil. [...] While not productive, they are harmless. I think it is a mistake to view something like viral TikTok videos
by bjt2n3904 4y ago
> Tik Tok for her would be a necessary evil. [...] While not productive, they are harmless.
I think it is a mistake to view something like viral TikTok videos as "harmless". Wasn't it a few weeks ago that we had a front page article on a child that died during a "pass out challenge"?
But you raise a good point. Other parents giving their children unsupervised access to the internet creates a massive problem. A colleague of mine started with a hard and fast "no internet" rule. That absolutely broke when all his son's friends were playing minecraft.
- alkonaut 4y agoI haven’t got the discipline to keep a minimum of screen time and I notice a massive difference between kids that do have very little unsupervised access (i.e many hours of TikTok and YouTube): the screen kids in my non-English speaking country speak fluent English at age 9 or 10. The non screen kids might never catch up. So while I’m sure it’s toxic as hell at least there is some benefit. If I was in an English speaking country I’d set my kids’ TikTok to e.g Spanish ;)
- wngr 4y agoOf course they will catch up, if they’re motivated at some point to do so. And the others will lose it as soon as they stop using it.