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by klyrs 868 days ago
Mom here with some technological advice: put down your phone. Screens are terrible babysitters, they teach the absolute worst lesson. And I'm not talking about the content on the screen, I'm talking about the dopamine that the screen triggers. Put down your phone, don't use screens as a babysitter. You will regret every hour your child spends in front of a screen, but latency is on the order of years. Be the adult you want your kid to grow into.

That said, you're gonna make mistakes. That's one of the harder lessons in patenting, I think. There's no takebacks. Nobody's gonna swoop in to save you. There's only tomorrow. Children will forgive you if you make a mistake, apologize, learn, and avoid the mistake in the future.

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Seconding this. Every time I see a young child in a stroller staring at a screen, I have to fight to stop myself from grinding my teeth into a fine powder.