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We're not allowing our daughter to have screentime until she's two. Other than one video call with her grandparents recently, or to show her images of real animals for education.
It's been pretty easy really. I'm glad we chose to do it. She's 17 months old now and doing great! Just watching her play and learn in the world around her is awesome, I can't imagine her sitting and staring in one direction for 30m straight while some over-energised over-saturated kids show blares at her.
She's too young to understand the narrative, she's too young to understand the art, so what's she getting out of it, other than a bright distraction?
Her mother and I are both super nerdy tech people who love film and gaming, so she's going to have screens in her life at some point, no doubt, but why rush it? Every day she develops more, and understands more about the world around her, and I want to encourage that first.
Same here, we've made it to 3 now without any screens and our house looks like a children's book library, our daughter is bilingual and ahead of her age cohort. Of course that's again a correlation/causation thing, but being able to connect with her over reading books, answering questions (so.many. questions...) has been wonderful. She'll be hit with digital everything soon enough, so why rush it indeed. At the moment she's doing video calls with the grandparents and very occasionally looking at photos or animals on the phone, and that's it.