Commentary: A 'no screens' parenting style can't exist in a post-COVID world (via latimesopinion)
Pre-pandemic, the thought of giving my 8-year-old twins their own Wi-Fi-enabled laptops was a nonstarter. But the onset of COVID-19 altered priorities, and appropriately so. We were protectors first and foremost against a deadly disease — and screen time meant the difference between some education and none.
This situation is now permanent, even with in-person classroom instruction. The centrality of their laptops to their education remains. The two fourth-graders do their homework on the computers; mercifully, the first-grader leaves his laptop on campus. I had always envisioned this transition taking place more slowly, and wholly on our terms — perhaps with a formal handover of a smartphone, or by introducing a shared laptop for the whole household. But 2020 changed the world for everyone, us included. Conversations we thought we’d be having now — about social media, online bullying and misinformation — started a year or two earlier.
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