Lockdown is giving my kids a crash course in screen and tween culture | Emma Brockes

My five-year-olds’ screen time is creeping up. Yet when we step out into the real world, everything seems more vivid to them

“There’s a ghost fish called Hank in Bora Bora,” said my daughter, finding me in the kitchen after a morning spent on screens.

“Fiction or non-fiction?” I said. We bring this question, previously raised by the librarian at my girls’ kindergarten, to every hideous video they watch. It makes me feel slightly better about the whole school of YouTube.

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