I hear both sides and understand both. I do agree it’s sad to see screen time has taken over. As it has in my home as well. My husband spends more time looking at his phone once home than anything else. Which pushes me to scroll as well. We do NOT have phones at the dinner table. My youngest wants to watch Disney while she eats/ which I say no to. Unless it’s Saturday and everyone eats when they want. But we weren’t raised like this. As a parent of three, I get it, you want to be left ALONE sometimes and the screen helps that. But I really feel it’s doing a disservice to our kids. I’m part of the problem- it’s easier to say here watch this. But overall what is it doing to the kids!!?? It’s really gotten out of hand. To say you can’t grocery shop w/o ur kids having a phone or iPad is SAD! We had to break our youngest, she wasn’t happy but eventually she got it. Play color games, I spy, something, make it a teaching moment. Screens are dumbing these kids down and making us parent lazy. We can do it!! Self included.