I think many commenters can’t see forest for the trees. As with most of domains there’s a curve of speciality. Most of the “don’t ever do that” is aimed for ge

I think many commenters can’t see forest for the trees. As with most of domains there’s a curve of speciality. Most of the “don’t ever do that” is aimed for general population. I believe it’s as with the cotton swabs. While there’s a lot of evidence cleaning ears is not dangerous, doctors don’t want Joe Average - armed with any form of a stick - anywhere near an eardrum. I agree with a general sentiment about restricting screen time but I myself won’t be following it. I think the problem is the social media and not the screen time per se (which seems to be equalized and for good cause, because Average Jane probably don’t know the difference) and I’m holding out as much as I can threading a line between my kids being ostracized by their peers and endangering their mental health. There are also other things in consideration. There’s ADHD, there’s ASD, there’s full blown autism. Those together aren’t that uncommon and creates a fair share of kids with different needs - that might have vastly different use of the device with completely different outcome (Many of IT specialists were, after all, hyper focusing on coding or systems or other kind of geeky stuff when they were young).