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> We are supposed to parent. Part of the parenting stuff means supervising and guiding in all environments your kid has contact with, including screens. That's

> We are supposed to parent. Part of the parenting stuff means supervising and guiding in all environments your kid has contact with, including screens. That's your interpretation of the parenting role. It might be agreeable for a lot of people on this forum, but that's mostly because we're all a self selected group. Historically speaking, children were free to learn unguided and parents only interfered if the kids didn't do their jobs, which was literal work on a farm or similar. I'm not advocating for child labor, but your opinion that it's your job to literally supervise your child learning is also a quiet extreme position from my point of view.

watwut 3y ago
> Historically speaking, children were free to learn unguided and parents only interfered if the kids didn't do their jobs, which was literal work on a farm or similar. First of all, we have lower levels of child criminality, violence, alcoholism, you name it then they had back in periods you are trying to reference. Second of all, this is not even historical. Historical parents cared about values they children grow in. They cared about what kind of people they will be. And the classes who could afford education and supervision, did paid those money. It could actually get quite controlling.