Our kid has certainly not had access to tablets/phones the first years of her life and only rarely until she was 9 or 10 or so. We have also banned phones from the dinner table, etc. from the beginning.

Parenting takes time and focus. Putting 0-6 years olds behind a tablet screen is just absolving yourself from your responsibility as a parent. Some TV time can be ok after 3 years or so, but you have to time it strictly (so that it does not become a convenience) and exclude some types of cartoons [1].

[1] https://thesciencesurvey.com/editorial/2024/07/07/the-proble...

It's a such a shame that it's impossible to parent children without a screen in reality land.

What? My kids have never ever had a screen of their own. They sit still in restaurants and flights like well parented kids have for decades. Anyone who thinks screens are required for bringing up children is ignoring countless research projects which prove otherwise, and are actively hurting their childrens development.

Parenting is hard. I know it firsthand. I never said zero screen time.

I'm opposed to dedicated devices for children that expose them to the internet.

It's ridiculously hard to restrict all of the harmful content. And frankly, the big tech is less trustworthy by the minute.

Reality is nobody forced you to have kids.

If you cannot raise your kids properly, please dont have kids.