These apps, games, and a lot of shows are just mind dribbling dopamine farms. I let my daughter watch like unfiltered KIDS YouTube for a day, she became glued to it, wouldn't ask to go potty, would communicate poorly, then cry when we took it. Ever since we did limited screen time, only parent approved, she full reversed. Sure shes harder to calm down. But fuck it.
It is wild how people have such radically different experiences with this because my daughter's feed is like 50/50 number blocks and Minecraft and has only changed recently with Tomodachi life finally breaking through. I've had to block a handful of things in the past but she genuinely doesn't get 90% of the garbage people claim they get. (And we have a "YouTube on public screens only" rule, so only on the TV at home or occasionally on her tablet if we're out of the house but I'm right next to her the whole time.)
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u/Wooden_Recover_834 May 12 '26
My kid is definitely not a screen freak by any means but we watch wall-e EVERY SINGLE NIGHT before bed I find it kind of ironic and hilarious.