I don't have a kid, you know, but I sorta do. First of all, I'm a godfather to besty, her real father died of cancer when she was 3, sounds familiar, so if her mother, who I knew long before she was even married, died, and I don't know if the paperwork is set or not or what is even needed, but at least her mother wants me to be her legal guardian, and in addition, I have a no-resuscitate order for her mother. Anyway, her mother, my friend for a long time, since undergrad, actually listens to my advice about her sometimes.

Anyway here's what I came to say. Girl likes to play games, she's got an xbox (I bought it for her during lockdown), switches (2, guess who bought that), an ipad with every game you can imagine (wouldn't buy apple anything to save her life, no thanks) and as long as she does well in school, I mean who doesn't do well in 3rd grade? 4th grade? I forgot. Then she gets nearly unlimited access to these games. She also watches youtube kids a lot. She gets plenty of exercise, she's not overweight, she's actually strong as heck and she can keep me down when rowing bjj (she's a higher belt).

Anyway, I'm over there a few times a week and her mother helps me with my business and thank Ganesha for that, so I play with besty a bit, I always loved playing with kids, babies to any age really, and so my contention is she should continue to have unlimited screen time within reason, not 1/2 hour or some bullshit like some of her "friends".

Her mother often gets on a kick where she wants to limit it and besty goes nuts understandably. Well I successfully argue for letting her have them, she doesn't play online games, no social media, no roblox, amongus, mmo, nothing like that, I am 100% on board with that restriction, no tictoxic, no twatter, no rumble (because it's a secret that I'm leading her to a moderate way of thinking, not conservative or liberal like her mother) and rumble is undeniably conservative.

Anyway, go on and tell me that it's bad to let her have that much screentime, here's my take, the doctors recommend 1/2-1 hours a day max, so now look at the percentage of kids 83% SELF REPORTED, to have used drugs in the last month from 8th grade through high school. A quarter of them, hard core drugs, cocaine, heroine. Half of them, binge drinking.

Looks like kids need something of an escape, gaming always was enough for me. I don't care of she doesn't have many other friends if 83% of those losers are going to be strung up, half will be crunk, 2% will be incarcerated, 1 in 7 will run away (human trafficked, on skid row tricking for drug money) so no, fuck you and your doctor because this system is broken, fuck those other kids because they're losers, half will end up in poverty, she can have gaming.