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It is important to encourage a balanced approach to technology use. It's like with diets if you limit completely it is not good and can be ended by overuse
I’ve run into a few people in my life who weren’t allowed to play any video games as kids. When they finally played one for the first time, they wouldn’t let go. It was wild. One guy basically lived in my dorm room for 2 weeks playing Metroid Prime on the GameCube, his first game ever. I thought I was just letting him play my game for 5 minutes, but no, he beat the whole thing and I never ended up playing again, because I didn’t want to start over once he had finished.
Also in favour of balance, is the notion that growing up completely isolated from your generational peers 'normal' social behaviour can itself lead to different forms of serious long term mental trauma and dysfunction.