What do you think would be better for the kid to do while their sibling is learning to swim? I'm sure they can't stay at home or in the car by themselves, its probably not a good environment for toys or drawing, and I think you could make the argument you'd learn more from a video than a book.
We have a lot of teachers in our family, and they spend so much time thinking about ways to teach kids problem solving - especially since memorization isn't as necessary with Google and ChatGPT has ruined essay-writing. I genuinely think teaching is so much more advanced than when I was in school, they've really embraced growth-mindset tools for the kids.
How many great minds of the future will never be, because their parents hopped them up on ADHD medication, and sat them in front of a screen?
This is a great sentence! ADHD medicine should help kids focus and not get constantly distracted by every little thing. If the kids are getting hopped up, you accidentally gave them meth instead.
Absolutely it is. My daughter never had a phone or a tablet wherever we went, and we managed fine. We would talk with her, play with her, spend time looking at random things. You didn't grow up with a screen in your face every day either - what did your parents do with you?
They gamify everything. It doesn't lead to depth for most kids in later life, because the stuff that comes after the foundation, isn't fun.
They are extremely focused, drawing in all that information from whatever they are watching, as the rest of life passes them by.
Ahhhh, I see. So essentially you're saying the mother should be playing with their youngest kid instead of chatting to you and the other parents?
To be honest, my parents actually did leave us in the car a lot, so we'd just draw and read comics and maybe play with toys. I assume we didn't learn more than if we were watching educational programs - I have no idea how to quantify that.
Your daughters school education is completely gamified? I didn't know that. I don't actually have any interaction with school aged kids, so I'm only hearing teachers perspectives.
Mom's shape to stay quiet when we were girls were: interacting with other boys; Talking with her about life, school, or what we read; read; A Rubik's cube ... there are, but, pitifully and sadly, parents do not want to be parents, they do not want to look for healthy alternatives (which are not a phone).