What if they have gotten so used to watching fast-paced Youtube stunt shows that everything else on Planet Earth seems BORRRINNGGG?!
Start small.
Here are over 30 ideas of games a child can play by herself, games for groups, games with props, and games without. Plus lots of toy ideas as well.
Play doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive…
Jonathan Haidt’s excellent book “The Anxious Generation” argues that the play-based childhood of our youth has been replaced with the phone-based childhood of now, and it’s not good. No bueno. Negatory, good buddy.
But there’s hope!
Haidt puts forth 4 things we can all do to get our children back (and get them some bonna fide childhoods instead of the hot garbage they’re living on TicTok.)
No smartphones before high school.
No social media before 16.
Phone-free schools.
Far more unsupervised play and childhood independence…
Has the iPad become your babysitter? Do you want to reduce screen time but the idea of completely screen free kids terrifies you? Consider the following:
Your young daughter has been watching her iPad for way longer than you intended, which has devolved into trolling the dark web, and now you’re trying to get her to turn it off before bedtime.
It’s getting ugly.
Like, “sweating off your glitter mascara while barfing in a hot porta-potty at Coachella” ugly.
