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Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks

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Re: Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks

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jdlyga wrote: post #2

A silver lining to this is new parents are very aware of the dangers of screen time. In my little community, I haven't seen parents of kids under the age of 3 give their kid any type of screen especially when they're out. It's a real generational divide, since I used to see kids with tablets in restaurants everywhere back 5 or 6 years ago. The new thing is screen free electronics, like a device kids can stick cards i…

True for children under 3, however I see plenty of 8-9 years old glued to their tablet in restaurants.

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tapoxi wrote: post #22
jdlyga wrote: post #2

A silver lining to this is new parents are very aware of the dangers of screen time. In my little community, I haven't seen parents of kids under the age of 3 give their kid any type of screen especially when they're out. It's a real generational divide, since I used to see kids with tablets in restaurants everywhere back 5 or 6 years ago. The new thing is screen free electronics, like a device kids can stick cards i…

We got my daughter a Yoto and it's a great device. She sticks a card in and it plays music or an audiobook. There's a "screen" but it's a low resolution pixel grid that shows pixel art of the current track.

We use luuni which is similar (except that it also enable choose your own story with audiobooks). Even then, we limit it because otherwise he would want to listen to it every time before sleeping (and it prevents him from sleeping)

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6stringmerc wrote: post #57
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #32

> "She actually looked at a motion picture and went, 'I get it! He's going to be the villain and they're going to do this'," he recalled. Is there something teachable in making a kid sit through the thing even though they instantly understood front to back? I get it if your goal is learning. Doing the questions in the math book makes the lesson stick. But - when it comes to entertainment - why put a kid through the f…

Answer: During development, children are in a condition where their fears are predominant. The world is big and scary and they need conditions and support to begin to process their emotions, all of them, into what I consider a “rainbow.” Each should be adjacent to another, as life is best lived with access to and the benefit of each when appropriate circumstances call them from their “library” so to speak. It’s not “…

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Post by gommm »

spaqin wrote: post #46

Funnily enough, even with such emphasis on children, the problem is touching adults as well. And that's completely ignored. Movies in recent years have changed dramatically in subtle ways to work with impatient audience.

I think that it's been happening for a while. Movies in the 70s and 60s tended to have more pause in the dialogue, more silence than movies in early 2000s.

Take a movie like the Godfather, it had a 8.4 seconds average shot length compared to the Departed 3 second average shot length.

I've noticed my parents no longer having the patience for movies with longer average shot length despite having been young during the era when movies were less fast paced.

[1] https://cinemetrics.uchicago.edu/movie/2732f3f8-f0d4-43f7-a0...

[2] https://cinemetrics.uchicago.edu/movie/9d17ce68-0d48-45cc-89...

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Post by mysterydip »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #9
hexasquid wrote: post #3

Disney, here to save kids from screens. Reminds me of when I saw a bunch of tshirts with the word "PUNK" written on them displayed in a window in a mall.

Why would I extend the creative energy to figure out how to look punk when I can get the shirt for just $49.99

Only $49.99?! I missed the sale!

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Post by slumberlust »

lionkor wrote: post #42

I'm not a parent, but I have siblings. Screen addiction is a failure of parenting above all else, so is drug abuse and other kind of issues that are rooted in addiction, barring mental illness and bad luck of course. EDIT: Of course parenting is very difficult, and I don't believe that any of it is easy. I wouldn't blame parents for bad parenting, I would blame a system that creates parents that have no time or energ…

I'd be cautious to dismiss addiction as bad parenting. In many cases its a disease, and not as simple as just coaching or disciplining it away.

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Post by littlecorner »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #32

> "She actually looked at a motion picture and went, 'I get it! He's going to be the villain and they're going to do this'," he recalled. Is there something teachable in making a kid sit through the thing even though they instantly understood front to back? I get it if your goal is learning. Doing the questions in the math book makes the lesson stick. But - when it comes to entertainment - why put a kid through the f…

Kids like repetition in their media. They often ask to watch the same movie for days/weeks on end, or read the same story every night, or the same story. And if you don't tell it the same way they remind you...

Suffice it to say, repetition isn't the same frustration that it can be for adults

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Post by phs318u »

6stringmerc wrote: post #58
hexasquid wrote: post #3

Disney, here to save kids from screens. Reminds me of when I saw a bunch of tshirts with the word "PUNK" written on them displayed in a window in a mall.

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That last sentence was unnecessary.

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Post by sometimelurker »

hexasquid wrote: post #3

Disney, here to save kids from screens. Reminds me of when I saw a bunch of tshirts with the word "PUNK" written on them displayed in a window in a mall.

> Disney

in this context, 'Disney' represents a plurality, and it's likely that there's people at Disney that want their kids off screens

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