Comment

Comment by twiclo

We have two three olds and a 6 month old. We decided long ago to just not have a TV in our house. It would be too much of a temptation to just turn on and have the TV watch our kids. I bought a cheap used projector that we sometimes set up for movie nights. Now it's an intentional event. For the most part my kids get maybe an hour of screen time per week. Obviously it's harder than if we had a TV but removing the temptation from ourselves has helped a lot.

I'm biased but I feel like our kids are much more imaginative than others their age. They make more eye contact, have more original thoughts, and are much easier to feed because they don't demand to be on their tablet the whole time. Our 6 month old has Down Syndrome so we regularly have nurses coming to our home. They tell us all the time how much more imaginative our boys are than other kids their age.

parent twiclo 5 days ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton