[jancsika]

> is a slippery slope to nowhere positive.

Both you and the author are rankly speculating.

Worse, the author is outright misleading:

> Trying to suppress that energy by demanding silence or defaulting to screens is damaging.

The word "damaging" links to an article by Haidt with evidence of damage from defaulting to screens, but decidedly not evidence of damage from demanding silence.

They make the same bait and switch with screen time in a separate paragraph, again with a link to a Haidt article.

I have to say I resent both you and the author for forcing me into having to side with boomers! But you have zero evidence that forcing kids to play sardines instead of tag is detrimental. Given that, I must begrudgingly respect the boomers' grudge and side with your local council's ban (or at least say that it appears innocuous). :(