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I haven’t got the discipline to keep a minimum of screen time and I notice a massive difference between kids that do have very little unsupervised access (i.e many hours of TikTok and YouTube): the screen kids in my non-English speaking country speak fluent English at age 9 or 10. The non screen kids might never catch up. So while I’m sure it’s toxic as hell at least there is some benefit.

If I was in an English speaking country I’d set my kids’ TikTok to e.g Spanish ;)



Of course they will catch up, if they’re motivated at some point to do so. And the others will lose it as soon as they stop using it.




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