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 "his introverted mind loves to shut itself"

That sounds like keeping bottles at arms reach was a good idea if your brain craves alcohol instead of thinking about detox. When family members give a screen to my daughter and her brain shuts down, with her literally not answering to anything, I get mad at those who shut down my baby's brain. 
 Same here, but that wasn't my note about. I noted my opinion higher here. I'd burn and crash all this shit in a heartbeat. Comments in this thread about having a spine etc. merely point out arrogance and no experience/interest around different parents'/kids' psychology.
I spent with my kids last 5-6 years as a housewife/homeschooler, also locked in another country for a few years with babies during covid, we have almost no help from grandmas or so. So let me shrug at succeeding opinionated dads here and move on. 
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All this “have a spine” BS is probably from people who either have no kids or are not pulling their weight as parents. Easy to make proclamations. 

🫡 people who are disciplined about screen time and put in the work to fill the void. But 🖕people who pass judgment and the leave their wives to pick up the slack. 

Btw, dad here with 50% equity stake in my child’s development. My kid is perfectly reasonable. Healthy attachment to TV. When it’s time to turn it off, it goes off without protest. And it’s 100% worth whatever brain rot you think is happening. I get shit done around the house while my kid learns about Mozart and Monet and math and shit from the shows he watches. And then we turn it off and go touch grass. I see no problem with that. 
 I think we're going in a spiral here. I'd even say we're all on a very same page, but read stuff from different angles. It's a good thing we're clear in this. 
 Oh nah I’m just +1ing you. This thread is mostly cancer. 

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 lol I realize now that the “you” in my thread above was not referring to YOU (one of the few reasonable people in this thread) but the general “you” that comprises all the dickheads up above 😅