Digital Playground Babysitters -

This is not play. Play is messy, inefficient, and often boring. Play is building a block tower just to knock it down. Play has no metrics, no A/B testing, no retention team.

These features are not for your child. They are for you . They are the digital equivalent of a babysitter winking at you on the way out the door: “Don’t worry, I’ll clean up the mess.” digital playground babysitters

The real act of resistance is small and boring: it is sitting on the floor. It is letting them whine for ten minutes until they pick up a crayon. It is the radical, exhausting choice to be the boring, present, imperfect babysitter that no algorithm can replace. This is not play