* Commenters here are a highly selected sample. Many people are saying "I got lots of screen time as a kid, and all I did was learn computer programming." Well, sure, they're on HN! But your kid may not be like that.
* This is equally true for any parenting strategy. "My parents did X and I turned out great" is not necessarily informative because most people who are reading HN probably turned out OK.
* People's own parenting strategies are also non-typical ("I set up squid and created a whitelist..." is beyond most people). But maybe that's ok because you the reader are from the same atypical sample.
Indeed. We learned computer skills because we had to. Computers were a buggy mess. I still remember how big of an upgrade windows 98 felt like. That is no longer the case. We now have devices, apps, and services meant for the specific purpose of effort-free consumption.
I didn’t get my first smartphone until I got a job, but I really wish that my parents had never let me have a personal computer, in hindsight. It caused significantly more harm than it did good.
* Commenters here are a highly selected sample. Many people are saying "I got lots of screen time as a kid, and all I did was learn computer programming." Well, sure, they're on HN! But your kid may not be like that.
* This is equally true for any parenting strategy. "My parents did X and I turned out great" is not necessarily informative because most people who are reading HN probably turned out OK.
* People's own parenting strategies are also non-typical ("I set up squid and created a whitelist..." is beyond most people). But maybe that's ok because you the reader are from the same atypical sample.