Though most parents will likely know that giving their kids lots of screen time probably isn’t ideal – it is, after all, linked to largely negative brain changes – I can see why overwhelm might tempt some to abandon expert guidelines .

Still, a 2024 paper showed that while a “digital pacifier” might offer short-term relief, in the long term, kids who were given tech to soothe their tantrums had worse emotional regulation ( sometimes leading to a vicious cycle of anger and screen time).

With that in mind, perhaps it’s no wonder that some mums like u/rssanch86 have found that keeping their kids from their tablet PCs has actually made parenting easier

“Turns out the ‘lazy parenting’ thing to do, for me, was to take away the tablets,” she wrote to Reddit’s r/Parenting .

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