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«I have found myself wondering if we’d be better off thinking less about educational value in children’s media and more about real pleasure, both for us and for our kids. “The best kids’ TV feels very bespoke,” Susan Kim told me. “If you’re a child, it feels like it was made for you. It feels intense and absorbing, imaginative and free and wonderful and scary and funny.” It can feel like this even on the days that you cling to screen time like a raft in a thrashing ocean. Recently, all four people in my household got the stomach flu simultaneously. We lay on the floor of the living room and watched “Classical Baby” on repeat—all six episodes, three times in a row. I felt delight, even then, and dimly recalled one of the conclusions about screen time which is most strongly backed by research: the TV that is best for kids is whatever a parent will sit down and watch with them.

I often feel that the anxiety I have about my kids’ screen time comes mainly from sublimated disappointment in myself. The most frightening studies I’ve seen found that parents, when using smartphones, respond to their children’s needs less, play with them less, and show decreased sensitivity and warmth. Parental device usage correlates strongly with children’s device usage; the average adult spends some four and a half hours each day looking at her phone. When it comes to the shows we allow our children to watch, we are afraid of—what, exactly? That our kids’ capacity for deep thought will be blunted by compulsive screen use? That they’ll lose their ability to sit with the plain fact of existence, to pay attention to the world as it is, to conceive of new possibilities? That they’ll grow up to be just like us, only worse?”

Fragmento de este artículo: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/cocomelon-children-television-youtube-netflix