Lately, I don't even have time to watch TV or movies anymore, so we don't even have a TV. We of course have computers, tablets, and smartphones, given the world

Lately, I don't even have time to watch TV or movies anymore, so we don't even have a TV. We of course have computers, tablets, and smartphones, given the world today. But we never put them in front of our toddler for her to watch. The only time we have her looking at a smartphone is when we do a video call to grandparents. These days, she's really excited for me to read books to her. She grabs her books off the shelves and brings them to me, and when we're done, she goes and grabs more. Last night, she kept wanting to go back to reading one called Barnyard Dance over and over again. She loves it. After experiencing life with her not caring about screens, I'm actually quite excited and intrigued. I love that she's excited to read books, demands me to read them to her, and cries when I say it's time to stop and go sleep or go eat or whatever. I've not yet experienced life with her extensively in front of screens, but at this point, I think I enjoy life without screens for the toddler in terms of our family relationship, and I think I'll keep it going for as long as I can. She seems to be full of life without them, why try to fix what's not broken? Eventually though, I wouldn't mind if she became a software engineer, if that's how she's bent, so probably need to introduce screens sometime. But we'll put it off for as long as possible and when screens do come into her life, hopefully, she'll go at them with the same excitement she goes at books and also doesn't lose her love for books.