My wife and I have taken a different approach with screens. Our daughter gets maybe a couple hours a week to watch some approved shows that we have chosen. She doesn't digital game or use a phone, but she is quickly learning to read and write. She plays a lot of different games with her various toys and makes up stories and songs. Very little of what she does is consumptive - it is mostly creative. Perhaps in 20 years she will be punished for not being able to use apps as well as others, but I suspect that given a decent foundation, she will learn to be proficient enough, as I did. I was 16 when I got my first PC and almost 30 when I got a smartphone.
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