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play no games: I don’t think the problem with movies, TV, etc in the frum community was ever really with the idea of sitting and watching; I think it was more with the content, and the fact that kids weren’t staring stupefied at screens all day was just a convenient plus. (Disclaimer: I used to wake up at five in the morning and my parents would plop me in front of the TV with a Winnie the Pooh tape. I turned out basically fine, according to some shitos.) Now that there is “kosher” entertainment, technically speaking there wouldn’t be implicitly a problem with TV or movies.
I still think that in an ideal world I won’t show my kids nearly as much TV as I watched and I’ll try to limit their access to technology when they’re little, but who am I to assume I’ll be “better” or whatever than my parents?