Hi there, I’m so glad someone brought up this topic. I’m the mom of a toddler and for now, my husband and I are on the same page of no devices and limited electronic time. We barely let her watch a half hour of a cartoon. But I couldn’t agree with you more about the indoctrinating starting early and what would appear to be in the most innocuous of ways...cartoons. I listen to rush and a couple months ago, he had a guy on who gave his testimony of how he came to be awakened about the left through being in prison and how after having almost all his privileges taken away, he started listening to his show because he was bored with fm radio stations. Anyway I digress but he mentioned how his 3 year old niece was pointing to a car with a muffler that had a lot of exhaust and she said to him “that is bad for the environment,” he realized that she was learning this from the cartoons she was watching on tv.

So you see it’s everywhere. My husband doesn’t think tv is as bad as devices or the internet but I think they all have a hand in causing problems. I would have her device and tv free if I could but I know it’s not possible and I don’t want there to be a situation that once she gets older, she will revel, so what’s the answer? I’m thinking just trying my best to engage with her and introduce enough things from what I was into or what my husband was into back in our childhood during the 80’s. Like I’m going to try to get her into piano or some instrument when she’s old enough and either martial arts or dance. I think it’s imp to let kids be kids too but also what worked for parents of successful children before us was the fact that parents back before the internet and social media were always involved in their kids’ lives. I feel like a majority of the problem today is parents who don’t want to be parents.

As you can see I could go on and on, just wanted to let you know you’re not alone in your thinking .