Child on tablet deviceThough most parents will likely know that giving their kids lots of screen time probably isn’t ideal – it is, after all, linked to largely negative brain changes – I can see why overwhelm might tempt some to abandon expert guidelines.Still, a 2024 paper showed that while a “digital pacifier” might offer short-term relief, in the long term, kids who were given tech to soothe their tantrums had worse emotional regulation (sometimes leading to a vicious cycle of anger and screen time).With that in mind, perhaps it’s no wonder that some mums like u/rssanch86 have found that keeping their kids from their tablet PCs has actually made parenting easier“Turns out the ‘lazy parenting’ thing to do, for me, was to take