Can we please stop using “screens” as a pejorative?
There are plenty of examples where a screen provides a better and more enriching/edifying experience than dead trees, etc
There are plenty of examples where a screen provides a better and more enriching/edifying experience than dead trees, etc
So I think there is sense to use "screens" in the pejorative sense. They are quite irritiating.
It's quite frankly ridiculous that people who associate with "hackers" want to isolate their children socially and technologically until some magical time that their mind is ready for controversy. As if the generations most capable of "hacking" weren't doing things far beyond their parent's understanding. Half the "hackers" here wouldn't be a fraction as successful if the censorship and restricted access they wanted were present when they were kids. Ladder pullers are some of the worst people in society.
Technically it's only your word that your children are fine. Who's to say? Not really a datapoint in that regard.
> Discover simple, screen-free activities
The implication that screens are bad is obvious to normal people.
The evidence is less clear: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d0l40v551o
> expressing contempt or disapproval.
Exactly what I thought. "Screen-free" is clearly implying disapproval of screen time. What do you think pejorative means?
This is entirely an assumption on your part. Just because parents are looking for screen-free activities doesn't mean they're anti-screen. They're two totally different things. Most parents want to balance screen time with screen-free time. This doesn't imply anything. When you see a gluten-free option on a menu, do you feel so attacked? While some people may be so gluten-free that they impose their preachy anti-bread beliefs on others, most folks don't and are either looking to avoid wheat or have an allergy.
The fact that they're highlighting the screen-free nature of these activities is what makes it perjorative. Otherwise they would just be "activities for kids". This sort of thing:
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/kids-activities/
> When you see a gluten-free option on a menu, do you feel so attacked?
No, because some people genuinely can't tolerate gluten.
Putting "screen-free" in there serves zero purpose except to guilt people who let their kids watch videos occasionally into thinking they're doing something wrong.
It's obviously not a good idea to let your kids watch TV all day. Nobody thinks that. But you don't need to feel guilty about letting them watch Saturday morning cartoons or whatever. That's my issue with this "screen-free" guilt trip.
Is this from his biography or something? I haven't read it. But the iPad came out in 2010 and Jobs passed away in 2011. I'm not sure how the timeline works there.
>“So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves. “They haven’t used it,” he told me. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”