> Silicon Valley nannies are keeping kids away from screens
Gob-smacking article in the New York Times:
From Cupertino to San Francisco, a growing consensus has emerged that screen time is bad for kids. It follows that these parents are now asking nannies to keep phones, tablets, computers and TVs off and hidden at all times. Some are even producing no-phone contracts, which guarantee zero unauthorized screen exposure, for their nannies to sign.Morally repugnant. How anyone can feel that something's so bad they need to keep their children away from it yet go on making a living from that thing is beyond me.The fear of screens has reached the level of panic in Silicon Valley. Vigilantes now post photos to parenting message boards of possible nannies using cellphones near children. Which is to say, the very people building these glowing hyper-stimulating portals have become increasingly terrified of them. And it has put their nannies in a strange position.
I'm sure it's possible to think that it's fine for adults to use such devices and protect the kids but this doesn't ring true to me at all.