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Kids are social creatures and screens tend to be fundamentally antisocial skinner boxes
That said you can sit down and do things with a kid on a screen, explaining what you're doing
There is so much richness in social relations that a child loses by not witnessing or engaging with them in person.
When I say child, I mean 5 and under. I am not sure about older age groups and certainly not teenagers - some posters will have moved out of home at (what I suspect is) OP's kids age.