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Why children prefer watching others play to playing themselves

My 5-year-old prefers watching other kids play with toys on YouTube to playing with her own toys and I feel like I am losing her to strangers I will never meet.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Digital spectatorship replaces direct experience, creating a generation more comfortable observing than participating.

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