@MariaEuler Gosh, such a fascinating can of worms!? 
Sorry I’m here only infrequently, and don’t have time to elaborate much at the moment … but there are a number of aspects off the top of my head:
- I much appreciated @erik_lonroth way of educating his children about advertisements and surveillance capitalism - the tragedy is that most entertainment and toys are branded, boring and shortlived
- Not sure I understand what was meant with “too easy”, but meaningful things are frequently inaccessible behind a veneer of boredom. I joke that I would never have learnt Linux if I had anything better than to spend my highschool weekends at the Linux User Group. The ability to (dis)assemble mentioned above feels relevant here too - technology is most powerful when you can control it from scratch in some fashion. Also Richard Feynman “Everybody knows, but you’ve got to stop and think about it [my emphasis], to really get the pleasure about the complexity, the inconceivable nature of Nature”
- I completely respect parents wishing to shield their children simply from the unfiltered complexity of the world. Even regardless of the fierce attention economy mentioned above, an abundance of information lead to a scarcity of attention, and the capacity to comfortably ignore some things is a skill of adulthood. Under this item fits all concerns that you want to protect your children from getting addicted to long-term harmful habits