Ella May Ding

I've done it a few times.

I've dabbled in Miss Rachel because it's funny.

I thought I might be missing out on Pia's developments because everyone was like, oh, my God, Miss Rachel teaches my kids so much.

And...

Then I watched this podcast interview with another psychologist more so focused on children and screen time and development.

And it actually was saying that Miss Rachel is still not okay for a child before two and it shouldn't be really shown.

And, like, look, I'm not coming for mums that use screen time whatsoever.

Like, I believe in you have to do whatever's going to get you through the day or your job.

And I'm totally like, you do what you do, boo.

But yeah, like I've tried it with Pia and she actually got a bit frustrated and didn't really have a pleasant time.

So we don't actually do any screen time.

Sometimes I have meditation music on the TV and there might be like a real relaxing fucking scenic tour on of Italy or like fishes and stuff like that.

But yeah, like it's,

filling my mind with so many thoughts around that as well.

And then I've got, you know, the thoughts around sharing peer online.

Like, obviously I've shared her since birth and that's because I have friends and family on socials who I don't see very often and they get to see her that way.

And then I'm like, fuck, what if I just took her away tomorrow on social media, like erased all content and no one ever knew she existed.

Like what would happen then?

And, you know, I just, yeah, I don't know.

It's, it's a really scary place.