Are Audio Players The Answer To Keeping Kids Off Screens?

Audio players allow kids to choose what music or podcasts they want to listen to from a selection curated by parents. 

When I was 3 years old, like many children of the ’80s, I was gifted a Fisher Price tape recorder. It had four buttons: play, forward, rewind and record. Its aesthetic would be at home in today’s popular parenting palate of sad beige, because its colours are brown and brown. 

I had a few Raffi tapes that I listened to on repeat during long car rides, and I also spent...