💻 Digital Parenting
Where does homework time go?
One twenty-minute homework session. The pencil fills a teal line, and every ping from the tablet makes a hole nobody sees on the clock. Turn notifications off and watch the difference.
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of 20 min were homework
Notifications on: three pings, three restarts
Roughly 13 of 20 minutes were homework
Play again ↻Turn notifications off 🔕
Notifications on
Three pings, three restarts, roughly 13 minutes of homework
It is not the ping that costs. It is the seconds afterwards.
Notifications off
One help bubble the child fetched, almost 20 minutes of homework
Same tablet, same table, same child