That's the thing - Being a Luddite is the delusion that you are able to halt technological progress for your own benefit. Being a parent is about guiding the pe

That's the thing - Being a Luddite is the delusion that you are able to halt technological progress for your own benefit. Being a parent is about guiding the personal progress of an actual human being. It's at the discretion of the parent to decide what influences a child can or should be able to deal with. I don't see the use of this bear in that context - I think it's dangerous if introduced too early and rather useless when introduced later. (And I have similar "too early" reservations towards smartphones, or anything with a screen, really.) I think that the quality of life a human (first child, then adult) enjoys is based on getting the basics right first - everything else builds upon the fundamentals of movement and perception, thought and expression that you learn in your first years. I've seen a couple too many children who are astoundingly incapable of commanding their own body, leave alone understanding their own person in context of the society they are in. I have enjoyed a lot of time for myself in contact with my surroundings - I got a lot of exposure to the elements - and that's what I want to pass on. I think what you get from that is a calm sense of being connected to reality and only from that comes the ability to properly understand abstract concepts like smart phones or computers. If you lack that connection, you might still excel in the use of these devices, but there will always be something missing. You would be disconnected from reality and thus always try, but fail to connect with it fully. Some manage to claim that connection back (the usual stories you read about people travelling to India come to mind), but like learning languages very late in life, the effort is a lot higher and you might find yourself wondering how your life could have been had you connected earlier.