Sandra Dodd

Pam Sorooshian sent this to me. :-)

It’s a mainstream article about how some parents are being shamed by childless friends, or older people or random strangers, for letting their kids watch TV or play with “screens.”

I smiled through it. I was amused. :-)

And there will be things there in the defense that are still kind of cowardly and tentative by unschooling standards. :-)

I think the “paper time” and “cloth time” arguments could be good, for someone with the confidence enough to present them. Or Joyce’s “Door stuff” example.

http://www.today.com/parents/screen-time-shaming-what-it-how-cope-t112484

Also, this week, someone showed me a cartoon and said it seemed plagiarism, but I think the term “paper time” can / will / must arise spontaneously in LOTS of people who see the tacky irony of lumping all “screentime” together while taking pride in writing paper checks and reading paper magazines and having a library card.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30/quantification

For anyone new here, there are many happy things on my site about the avoidance of the use (or thought) “screentime”:

http://sandradodd.com/screentime/

Sandra