That’s exactly why you look for a tablset specifically for kids. The features you want are parental control, time locking, and app screening.

The entire future of learning is built around screens. Kids take standardized tests on touchscreens. They will do their taxes in an app, research topics with the internet, communicate with their peers in messaging apps, and build new tools through programming.

They must learn to use screens effectively without getting addicted to them.

Kids who learn those skills early, who practice using a tablet and then putting it down, those kids will be better equipped to go put into the world.

I agree with you that too many parents use screens as babysitters. And while tablets are more addictive and predatory, that’s been a problem since screens existed. There’s a cool documentary on it calles The Cable Guy.