Somehow, my wife and I have made it through 27 months of virtually no screen time for our daughter. We thought we were doing what's best for her, but we're starting to fear it's going to come back and bite us. To elaborate...

My question is spurred by the fact that recently I let her use my phone on a video chat with Grandma and I had it locked completely down so she couldn't do anything. This was the first time we had tried this, and after the call ended she carried my phone around for a half an hour refusing to part with it. When I finally insisted on getting it back, it was the **ultimate** meltdown of her young life. Both my wife and I were stunned. It was not her first video chat, but the first chat where she got to hold the device solely herself. She could not manipulate the phone so to speak as all the controls were off, including the touchscreen.

She sees her parents, other adults, and some kids with electronics that she is not allowed to see or hold, though she desperately wants to. By keeping screens from her so stringently, is she more likely to be obsessed with screen time later? Would she be better off now if they had been a small part of her daily life from the get go?