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>My son’s major motivation for learning to read came from watching us play Breath of the Wild and getting tired of not knowing what was going on. My son gets a
by a_bonobo 3y ago
>My son’s major motivation for learning to read came from watching us play Breath of the Wild and getting tired of not knowing what was going on.
My son gets a few dozen minutes of Youtube kids as a treat if he has done well. The in-built timer asks you to solve a simple multiplication problem to add more time: he has gotten remarkably well at doing those even though he hasn't had multiplication at school yet. Now I am pretending that I am not seeing him solve those problems!
If anybody here works at Youtube kids: please add division!
- bombcar 3y agoTo continue watching baby shark please: solve the Riemann hypothesis
- sitkack 3y agoAnd/or/xor/nand, popcount and maybe FMA. Division, bah!
- ido 3y agoI've added screen time restrictions to the ipad my kids use (5 and 7, but mostly the 7 year old - the younger one seems to not care much for TV of his own volition). I set it to 10 minutes per day per year of age (so 1h10m per day, as only the 7 year old seems prone to overuse). This is a maximum, but he reaches it most days and then after some grumbling accepts it and does something else. One advantage: when the iPad "decides" it's time out instead of me or my wife, he is somehow a lot more ready to accept it! With both our kids we only started allowing them to watch TV/use screens at around 2 years of age using roughly the above formula.