A parent of 11-year-old twins explains how he manages their screen time to avoid low-quality "brain-rutty" content while finding digital tools that teach useful skills. He aims for balance between fun and purposeful learning.
Like, how can we, you know, be able to bring some of the good stuff? And then also, like, with the new modalities we have here, this is something I've been doing a lot, actually, with my children. I'm a father of two boys, they're 11 years old, twins. And, you know, trying to figure out, like, how to be giving them screen time that will be both enjoyable and fun for them, right? While simultaneously moving them forward with the kinds of, you know, skills and thinking patterns that I would, you know, wish for them. So, you know, we don't necessarily— I'm not giving them access like to just sort of, you know, raw YouTube, or giving them access to, you know, other sort of, you know, brain-rutty type stuff, if you will.
