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Seriously, I’m keeping my kid away from screens and phones for as long as possible in this society. I estimate I can atleast get to 4-5 years of age before having to use a computer becomes somewhat inevitable.

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We did that with my son. He was probably five or six when we went to visit his cousins and they were all laying on the floor playing with their portable game devices (whatever they called GameBoy's back then). He didn't have one, so he picked up a travel chessboard that was about the same size as their devices and laid down next to them and stared at the chessboard the way they were staring at their devices and pretending he was playing a video game on it.

Yeah, we bought him a nintendo whatever-they-were-called when we got home.

Yes it's the same for us. He's 3 something now and his only interaction with screens is for calling the grandparents because they are at 2 days driving distance. We don't hide screens from him tho; I think that also contributes to him not being interested in screens too much.

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