Children learn best when engaged in the living world, not on screens
&gt; The gestalt of a farm transcends what pixels and speakers can convey.<p>Humanity has historically fled from working on farms (note the % of farm workers over the last 300 years). Maybe before writing this sentence, question your pastoralist presumptions.<p>I will also remark, without proof, that retreating from the contemporary world gives your children a tailwind that they will need to overcome. The notion of teaching computers to children is a notion, at its core, of guiding children into engagement with the contemporary, preparing them to deliver their full potential within the world we live in.<p>Assumptions that &quot;nature is better&quot;, or &quot;sweaty work is more moral than brain work&quot;, or &quot;face to face is better than distance&quot; are founded upon certain assumptions about the world that are not per se true. Just because one might <i>feel</i> better, or <i>feel</i> more trusting, in certain environments does not make what you feel to be rational or correct. Much like &quot;wellness&quot;, juice cleanses, or antivaxxing.<p>And, as counterpoint to the inevitable - it&#x27;s <i>also</i> true that f2p mobile games and video short video recommendation systems are finely tuned addiction engines that prey upon children - the mental &amp; physical health issues are not to be ignored. The author isn&#x27;t going into those issues. And, limiting screen time is a very common practice in recognition of that reality.