> When my children wakes up in the morning they don't switch the tv on or any other screen. They play.
It seems like you may be conflating the medium with the activity, and that you're not a fan of exposing kids to computing devices until relatively late. Which is fine, of course! Good parenting comes in many forms.
That said, I don't feel bad that my son prefers playing/building in Minecraft to Lego (although he does that too) and started relatively early. For us, any activity that isn't passive media consumption is a win.
As long as you are providing ample opportunity to develop a range of fine-motor skills, and 3-D visual perception at many ranges of distance, and interactive spoken communication, and not fixing gaze at a single distance for extended periods of time.
As stated my kids are only 7 yo and don't have their own devices yet, so I haven't got any experience in monitoring their screen time other than be careful about it on a daily basis.
But I guess when they grow up and have the opportunity to access it, say, in their bedroom, something like that might actually be useful.
It seems like you may be conflating the medium with the activity, and that you're not a fan of exposing kids to computing devices until relatively late. Which is fine, of course! Good parenting comes in many forms.
That said, I don't feel bad that my son prefers playing/building in Minecraft to Lego (although he does that too) and started relatively early. For us, any activity that isn't passive media consumption is a win.