''Screen time,' I think I am done with you. You're outdated and clumsy,' Elissa Strauss writes about the phrase, adding, 'With you gone, I'll actually be able to have the kind of conversations I should be having with my children about digital life.'
While adults tend to view language as fluid and open to interpretation, kids tend to be fairly rigid about it. They want clear explanations about what a word means. They also want to know where the thing or concept that is represented by the word, fits in their fairly simplistic, proto-Kantian, this-is-good-this-is-bad moral universe. If parents want to express nuance, they have to be extremely careful with word choice, and even more careful with how they define it.
There are so many variables in the way screens are used: What kind of device are we on? Are we being active or passive? What kind of content are we engaging with? These all play a role in determining the potential benefits or harms of being plugged-in. Yet, our language and framing remains preoccupied exclusively with how long we're spending. More is always bad, and less is always good."I don't like the stigma attached to 'screen time,' or the way it is coded.
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