> how do I let my kids program and be creative on the computer without being online when daddy can’t program without an internet connection? But loss of in-game items? It's more or less the point of games, isn't it? Teach you to balance risk and reward? You should definitely keep them from, for example, random pedos trying to find next victims via online games. > How do I let them have the same positive experiences I had playing games without having the deeply negative ones too (I lost that breastplate that took weeks of grinding to get because the Bloodwood forest swallowed my corpse). No every older person who starts using social media at their 60s becomes a flat-earther. Is it actually a thing tho? I think it's just general critical thinking. > How will they develop “street smarts” about being on social media without a social media account? These kinds of articles are basically just fun trivia if the people in them have no constraints on their resources. Whereas for me giving kids device time is a practical solution, without those resources: it keeps them entertained, while I work to make money. But for them? Easily done, and their kids would still have hundreds of millions to fall back on at maturity.īecause if their kids don't have screen time, and they get bored and complain, they could hire a dozen people to entertain their kids and look after them (and while the number is probably not that high, they do, actually, use that type of solution).

Completely impractical for me and would not set my kids up for success financially. So that's not relatable to me as a person not in that position.Įxample: pretend Gates & Jobs decided to remove their kids from school and teach them full time to be musicians. They can do anything with their kids and it won't matter. The problem with this type of article is that Jobs and Gates have no real world limitations whatsoever.

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