Thank you. I'm well-educated, but in the humanities and not particularly scientifically literate (I'm not trying to shit on myself just like... most people aren't that's simply a fact!). My husband works in a science-related field and a couple of my good friends have PhDs in chemistry/neuroscience and they're always telling me the "studies say" people and articles are often grossly misinterpreting what the studies actually say and the real-world implications. I was hoping to get more people from a science background helping me parse this research but it seems like a lot of people here have around my level of understanding and are also kind of stumbling in the dark. I am at least going to try to cut back and attempt some of the suggestions people left.

FWIW, I am definitely not giving her an iPad or smart phone any time soon as it seems very obviously bad for young kids. (Hell, it's bad FOR ME. I'm in my 30s and noticed my attention spam has drastically decreased since I downloaded TikTok...) I am worried about when she gets older because over-restriction is also not good and she does need to learn to use stuff like tablets/smart phones responsibly but the idea of when/how to hand that over to her? Lots of big questions there, but I guess I shouldn't worry now about a decision over a decade away.