[watwut]

No, my point is that you dont have to turn every little mundane thing into a teaching-something-important moment.

Overall, it is absurd, someone getting outraged over a kid not having a trip to preschool or whatever turned into as educational enriching character building exercise as possible.

[teekert]

Perhaps it is absurd, and indeed loosing a small amount of time for neural development is negligible, but I find it at least equally absurd that the kid needs to be sedated with a screen when riding on the back of a bike.

I can’t imagine anything good coming from that bored=grab-screen-attitude that people have. Moreover those screens are also used to silence kids. Like pacifiers, but with worse side effects and with habits formed for the rest of their lives.

Also, why use the screen on the bike? I bet that is not the only screen time. Kids have been behaving on the backs of bikes for 100 years with 0 issues. The value of the screen is negative.