Why it’s time to stop worrying about your children’s screen time during COVID-19
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DARRYL DYCK/The Globe and Mail
Michelle Deshaw’s 12-year-old son plays
Fortnite for two hours every day.
As he sits in his Vancouver home, his avatar runs across an island using a sniper rifle and other weapons to pick off players in a game of kill or be killed, all the while hanging out with friends, chatting together on an app called Discord from their homes scattered across the city.