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Baby cried in his sleep and made movements as if he had a tablet in his hand
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y agoI mean, the child had a nightmare or something and it was related to the tablet movement. That's all we know. It could have used the tablet once. My child (2) this morning started crying while asleep and saying "pista", which refers to railway track (not sure if the wooden or the real one). I get the sane info from it.
- cassianoleal 3y agoThis kid hasn't been a baby for at least 3 or 4 years.
- prepend 3y agoAlso doesn’t seem like he’s asleep so much as he’s pitching a fit and wants to use his tablet. This just looks like a young kid tantruming and squeezing his eyes closed in rage. I would guess that his tablet was just taken away.
- red_trumpet 3y agoHe doesn't look in rage to me.
- jnsaff2 3y ago[flagged]
- superchroma 3y agoNobody forced these parents to give their child a tablet.
- lethologica 3y agoMy wife and I are planning to have our first child soon and device addiction is something we’re worried of happening. I’m keen to hear from parents on HN how you go about managing devices with children. Do you have any recommendations, anecdotes, or resources?
- ed_elliott_asc 3y agoI’ve got two kids (12&9) - I think the main thing is balance, let them have devices but teach them that there are time for devices and times for no devices. If you severely restrict them then they will rebel, if you let them on all the time they will be sucked in. Keep them well away from social media as much as you can. Teach them they can brush their teeth or go to the toilet without their phones (you need to live this too and be a good role model)
- ed_elliott_asc 3y agoOh and don’t become one of these families who go for dinner and as soon as they sit down get their devices out and don’t talk. Devices and eating don’t mix when it is communal, end of.
- markus_zhang 3y agoSigh, we don't even eat together. I simply don't eat dinner and my wife is too busy to eat dinner before 8. Guess we somehow need to change this when son grows up. Now he is only 2.
- ed_elliott_asc 3y agoYou don’t have to eat together every day but make the effort when you can, you can sit with her and have a cup of tea (I don’t often eat dinner either). At a minimum make the time at weekends, it is just a small thing that makes such a massive difference. Could well be a relationship maker or breaker in my experience.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoAnecdote: If you are going to give such a device, turn on colour filtering, and make everything black and white. My hunch is that this reduces surprise, which means you avoid pitfalls of dopamine circuits. Make it as boring as possible.
- indymike 3y ago
- another-dave 3y agoI think kids access to electronics should be capped but I think some of the rhetoric around it gets a bit dramatic. He's just dreaming about something from his daily life. If the kid kicked his foot like he was playing football would that say something about the negative effects of sport? What if he mimed turning the pages of a book?
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]