To be fair this viewpoint should be included as well talking about being raised by the internet. People can have so very different experiences with the computers.

Back in the 80s kids were left for hours in front of a TV watching cartoons. I suspect this was the case even earlier that that too.

80s cartoons were better than regular YouTube on autoplay. Which is a Russian roulette of inappropiate content.

YouTube Kids is better in this respect, but more recent.

Some kids were, some kids weren't. I don't know how I ended up hacking with Linux and programming, while many others spent their time watching series and playing Nintendo. Not to say it is somehow a bad thing.

I sometimes wonder how much of a difference being raised on PC-s vs phones or tablets is there.

I am young enough that when I grew up phones started to become mainstream, and anecdotally people that started using PC-s before phones developed greater interest in technology later on.

In a way computers allow you to break stuff and learn how to fix it. Phones put you in a sandbox with a hose of internet content.

My kids get a fair share of unsupervised tablet time.

And they seem to know 10x of what I did at their same age.

My son is 9, watching endless Geometry Dash tutorials, and making his own levels. He loves it, and he loves to show me his work.

Tablet time will become an extension of your home life.

If you have good discussions - encouraging curiosity, fostering creativity, challenging their approach "Why did you design it this way?" - the kid and the algorithms will follow that lead.

Kids know more pokemons than the animals they are based on.

They can to take care of Talking Tom or some other virtual pet but ignore their own pets.