| No. First, the super rich can afford it: they have full-time nannies that can help raising children. Second, an exhausted parent is not going to be parenting. Everyone needs a break. Third, your approach would have left Bill Gates a nobody. Instead , he was "addicted" to computers. Many high performing and successful individuals are so because they have in effect an addiction which makes them go beyond the ordinary person. This clues you in on to what is next: parenting does not stop because you turned the TV or Xbox on. It means work: - work to select and make sure your child can only watch YouTube clips that are beneficial : for example advanced math, learning a foreign language , etc (so that by age 4 he is fluent in at least 2 New disciplines) -discipline so that you reinforce the learned material, for example sit down to review math, only speak to a child in the foreign language you are trying to teach, practice the sport he sees on a videogame -patience to review video games so hes only playing games that will help him learn (Crusaders Kings, Europa, MS simulator, etc) Parenting doesn't stop with videogames. My niece could type faster than her mach teacher because of Minecraft. If she had been my daughter, she would probably been a sysadmin by age 16 (server rental anyone?) |