Eliminating screen time
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Anonymous
| Did you reduce gradually or just go cold turkey? |
Anonymous
| It’s only been a few days (started on the first day of school), but we just went cold turkey. I think it depends on your kid, but for mine (boy, 6years old), just turning it off completely was the way to go. |
Anonymous
Thanks! My son is 7 and I think this is the way we need to go too. |
Anonymous
| Cold turkey, they know that once school starts screen time is for weekends only. |
Anonymous
| Cold turkey. Tantrums are the same intensity but for fewer days. |
Anonymous
| No screens at all until Thanksgiving Break. If they’ve kept their grades up then it moves to 1 hour per weekend. |
Anonymous
| Cold turkey. We allow some screen time on weekends but that's it. We've done this for several years and my kids adjusted well. |
Anonymous
Sick |
Anonymous
| Why elimination and not just cutting back? |
Anonymous
| So what replaces the screen/TV time? |
Anonymous
| When my kids were in elementary school, we only had screen time on the weekends. The hard and fast rule helped eliminate the discussion and negotiation. It helped with bedtime and overall physical activity and creativity (in my opinion). Now that they have phones we do have limits but it’s not as easy. I say keep them off screens as long as you can manage! It’s much harder when they’re older and it ties them to their friends and social life. |
Anonymous
Outside play, inside play, long baths, dance parties, reading books, arts and crafts…the house is messier but it’s worth it! |
Anonymous
Books, games, music, creative play. |
Anonymous
I admire this approach but what do they do after school? Yes my kid reads with us before bed and we do homework and he plays with legos but sometimes I have to cook dinner and can’t entertain him! |
Anonymous
| Only screens on the weekends in our house. It’s a pretty hard rule. |