Screen free moms: how do you feel about working so hard to keep your kids screen free and then they go to school just for everything to be on computers and screens

This is just a random thought i had, i have no judgement for the choice to go completely screen free or not, im back and forth with it all the time. I was just thinking about how in school education has gotten so technology forward and kids don’t hardly do anything in pencil and paper anymore. Does that bother any parents or is it just kinda an issue what it is situation. I don’t have school age kids yet but I was just curious as to what other parents think about it all.

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Just thought I would pop in and say this definitely isn’t the standard at every school. My son just got done with first grade, and on the last day of school he had a bankers box completely packed full with notebooks, workbooks, activity sheets, etc. The only thing he does on an iPad is take his AR reading tests.

We're happy with our daughter using screens more when she starts school. It's part of modern life, they need to be tech literate for pretty much all forms of employment in the future and it brings the screens in as a tool not just something for entertainment. We're not totally screen free but we watch a bit of TV a few times a week now she's a bit older. We don't have tablets etc. When our daughter starts school we will probably get her a tablet to support her learning at home. I don't expect a screen free life, I just want to minimise it while our daughter is young!

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