<story><title>Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year</title><url>https://localbabysitter.com/netflix-saves-our-kids-from-up-to-400-hours-of-commercials-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aczerepinski</author><text>I encourage you to google it. People get arrested all around the country for letting their kids play in the park across the street, ride their bike around the block, sit in the car alone at the bank, etc.</text></item><item><author>jak92</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;No it&amp;#x27;s not.</text></item><item><author>aczerepinski</author><text>Childcare is super expensive. I think there are a ton of people who can’t afford it and use screen time to supplement. It keeps the kid safe in one spot while you can get stuff done. Keep in mind that letting a child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal.</text></item><item><author>blobbers</author><text>&amp;quot;The average 2-5 year old is spending over 1,600 hours a year watching television.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This seems nuts to me. That is 4.5 hours a day! For a 2 year old? Who are these parents...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kilo_bravo_3</author><text>The fact that &amp;quot;a handful of people&amp;quot; in &amp;quot;several places&amp;quot; over &amp;quot;the last 20 years&amp;quot; becomes &amp;quot;People get arrested all around the country&amp;quot; like it&amp;#x27;s an epidemic or something is one of many negative, and one of the worst, things about the internet.&lt;p&gt;That and the fact that &amp;quot;oh and then the charges were dropped and in some cases local laws changed&amp;quot; is inevitably (I think purposefully) left out.&lt;p&gt;Reason.com went on a year-long bender of self-promotion and half-truthing about 3 years ago when three women were arrested in three states, claiming that &amp;quot;jack-booted big gubmint was comin to take yer kerdz&amp;quot; and plastered people&amp;#x27;s pictures and stories on fundraising materials and tried to get people to buy their &amp;quot;free range kids&amp;quot; books, as though three incidents in a country of 300 million was an epidemic.&lt;p&gt;Of course, the most confusing thing about all of this is that a Venn diagram of &amp;quot;people who think that the government is rounding up mothers all over the country&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;people who immediately, vocally, and vociferously criticize the government for NOT protecting the welfare of children&amp;quot; is a perfect circle.</text></comment>
<story><title>Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year</title><url>https://localbabysitter.com/netflix-saves-our-kids-from-up-to-400-hours-of-commercials-a-year/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aczerepinski</author><text>I encourage you to google it. People get arrested all around the country for letting their kids play in the park across the street, ride their bike around the block, sit in the car alone at the bank, etc.</text></item><item><author>jak92</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;No it&amp;#x27;s not.</text></item><item><author>aczerepinski</author><text>Childcare is super expensive. I think there are a ton of people who can’t afford it and use screen time to supplement. It keeps the kid safe in one spot while you can get stuff done. Keep in mind that letting a child play outside by themselves is essentially illegal.</text></item><item><author>blobbers</author><text>&amp;quot;The average 2-5 year old is spending over 1,600 hours a year watching television.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This seems nuts to me. That is 4.5 hours a day! For a 2 year old? Who are these parents...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisweekly</author><text>Huge exaggeration. Also, free-range parenting is a thing, but even in relatively &amp;quot;helicopter-y&amp;quot; families, the ability to send kids off somewhere w&amp;#x2F; a phone to reconnect makes it easy to let kids of a certain age explore and exercise some freedom.</text></comment>