The best thing for developing brains is not constant input, but rather boredom, which allows the mind to wander, and inevitably create activity by itself. Smartphones are boredom killers, full stop. Instead? Pick up a book. Build a block tower with your younger siblings. Think.
Reading is an ideal solitary activity. Mentally speaking, reading is like broccoli, firing the neurons in the brain in precisely the right way. Dahl famously used to 'blow dreams' in through the window of his children's bedroom at night using a bamboo stick.
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