[bombcar]

Babies are designed to pay attention to what you pay attention to, and want to do the same.

It may be more 'harmful' for babies to see parents paying attention to screens than it is for them to watch the screen themselves.

(They also become very good at telling if you're really "looking" at the phone or just pretending to look at something.)

[mothballed]

Maybe the plus side is if screens become their encoded reality from a young age, staring at a screen for work because that's the only thing you can do that pays well enough to support a family won't be nearly as depressing and just feel normal.

[SirFatty]

"Babies are designed..."

sure they are.