[vagrantJin]

> if your child loves watching tv, bring the ipad to the park and make her watch it outside.

I was in agreement until this.

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of being outside? To actually use their eyes to see things near and far, run about and get those muscles working? I don't know what it is about modern parenting that seems wholeheartedly dedicated to the task of making children worship at the altar of Disney and Youtube while denying any chance of developing mental and physical toughness.

[ninjanomnom]

The whole point of the comment is that time outside matters more than what is done outside. I don't know the degree to which this is true but if you're going to watch something anyway, doing it outside instead of inside seems like not a bad plan. I don't think they intended anything by specifying tv and you could replace it with reading, board games, drawing, any activity commonly done inside.