[Ari_Ugwu]

I have no plans on trusting my child with a phone/tablet for a _very_ long time. I mean, the basic income model for _all_ major online companies is to increase engagement no matter what. No thanks.

What I do wish is for the pubic perception of 'screentime' to not include _everything_. This morning my almost 3 year daughter and I watched 30 minutes of Daniel Tiger, 5 minutes of planes landing, and 10 minutes of ballet performances. All highly engaging with questions flowing from her about every aspect. It's not like I sat her in a corner to play some skinner box slot machine for an hour _or_ some brain dead flashy cartoon.

If the question is whether it's a good idea to let your kids sit in front of a slot machine that collects the data they input _and_ the words the say to friends in an effort to further manipulate them then I could have saved you a study. :D

[dngray]

> What I do wish is for the pubic perception of 'screentime' to not include _everything_.

This! My parents would let me have extra time if I was doing something other than mucking about playing games or social media nonsense.

Usually a parent would ask me what I did and if I was learning programming or something like that they would leave me to explore.

I think one of the main problems is that too many parents are just putting a screen in front of a child as a virtual babysitter because they don't want to be bothered.