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Arsh Kaur's avatar

I love how you make time for your kids while you’re working so hard on other things. I am so proud of you Lauren. As kids, my siblings and I, we always only wanted presence from our parents whatever the medium might be. You’re my dream mom. Lol.

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Kyle Starr's avatar

Lovely post. I’ve begun having thoughts around this topic. We’ve basically created a morning routine for our 3 year old of Ms Rachel for an hour while we get things in order. We were never totally against screen-time (especially for long car rides), but we limited it the best we could until she became a toddler.

Now I’m worried that she’s aging out of Ms Rachel and I fear the algorithm. Because of our more relaxed morning screen-time, our newborn has been exposed since day 1. It’ll be interesting managing this as we move forward.

Thankfully, the 3 year old hasn’t really shown an interest in video games when I show them to her. I’ve only shown her Mario 64, which I let her practice running around the front courtyard, and a Game Boy, which she doesn’t really get. But with either of these it’s basically 5 minutes and she’s over it.

Reading your post makes me less worried about the kids taking to games, so long as I’m able to curate them and observe what they are learning.

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